Description
When Sr. Miriam James Heidland’s life as a successful college athlete proved unfulfilling, she went looking for something deeper and ended up falling in love with Jesus. By charting her own journey toward wholeness, Heidland invites young Catholics to pursue their very own relationship with Jesus.
Although at first full of athletic ambition and goals for a career in sports news, Heidland was once transformed in a very slow but deep way throughout her undergraduate years, moving from party girl to bride of Christ. In Loved as I Am: An Invitation to Conversion, Healing, and Freedom through Jesus, Heidland helps readers learn from her experience of in quest of love within the incorrect places and as an alternative finding it in Christ. She shares her struggles–learning she was once adopted, battling alcoholism, and healing from childhood sexual abuse–as signs of hope that any one who desires to know Christ can find him and be loved intimately by him in return. By bringing readers into Heidland’s healing process, Loved as I Am provides a gentle and subtle template for finding peace and freedom in Jesus.