# Xavier Publishing ## Posts - [How to Pray When You're Afraid](https://xavierpublishing.com/how-to-pray-when-youre-afraid/): There is a version of prayer that waits. ## Pages - [Thank You](https://xavierpublishing.com/begin-held/thank-you/): Click below to download it now. It is also on its way to your inbox. - [Begin Held](https://xavierpublishing.com/begin-held/): Receive the complete opening week of Held: A Daily Devotional on Fear, Trust, and the Nearness of God. - [Returns & Refunds Policy](https://xavierpublishing.com/returns-refunds-policy/): Every book in the Held series is printed on demand. Because of this, we are unable to accept returns for remorse or change of mind. - [My account](https://xavierpublishing.com/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://xavierpublishing.com/checkout/) - [Cart](https://xavierpublishing.com/cart/) - [Shop](https://xavierpublishing.com/shop/) - [Contact](https://xavierpublishing.com/contact/): Whether you're a reader, a parish leader, or someone exploring a speaking invitation, I'd love to hear from you. - [Lectio Divina](https://xavierpublishing.com/lectio-divina/): Lectio Divina — literally "sacred reading" — is an ancient Catholic practice of praying with Scripture slowly and attentively. - [Books](https://xavierpublishing.com/books/): Fear doesn't go away because we ignore it. - [About](https://xavierpublishing.com/about/): Catholic author. Creator of the Held devotional series. - [Home](https://xavierpublishing.com/): The Held devotional journal series walks alongside you through fear, anxiety, and God's quiet nearness. ## Products - [The Complete Held Series -- All Four Volumes](https://xavierpublishing.com/product/318/): All four volumes of the Held devotional series in one order -- 52 weeks of daily Scripture, Lectio Divina, and journaling on fear, trust, hope, and peace. Save 10% when you buy the complete set. - [Held: Volume IV — Peace and Belonging](https://xavierpublishing.com/product/held-volume-iv-peace-and-belonging/): You were never meant to earn your way to peace. You were meant to receive it. The journey that began in fear -- unnamed, unsteady, overwhelming -- arrives here. Not at the absence of fear, but at something stronger than it. A place where the anxiety may still visit, but it no longer governs. Where God's presence is not something you search for in the dark but something you rest in, quietly, as a matter of belonging. Volume IV is the culmination of a 52-week journey through Scripture and prayer. It doesn't close with answers. It closes with something better -- an identity rooted not in the absence of struggle but in the nearness of God. Peace as a place. Rest as a practice. Belonging as the deepest truth. Volume IV -- Peace and Belonging -- walks you through thirteen final weeks of daily Scripture and guided reflection, inviting you to stop striving toward trust and begin living from it. I am held -- and that is enough. Through Scripture, guided reflection, and the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, each day offers an invitation to slow down, sit with God's Word, and discover what has always been true -- that God does not wait for fear to end before drawing close. Volume IV of the four-volume Held series -- 52 weeks of daily Catholic prayer and reflection for anxious hearts. - [Held: Volume III — Hope and Restoration](https://xavierpublishing.com/product/held-volume-iii-hope-and-restoration/): He didn't answer the prayer you prayed. He answered a deeper one. For years, Steve Corbin prayed one prayer with everything he had -- that God would take his anxiety away. The answer was a quiet, unmistakable no. Not a no of abandonment. A no of deeper intention. God wasn't withholding healing. He was redefining it. Volume III arrives at a turning point in the journey -- the slow realization that restoration doesn't require the fear to disappear first. Healing moves quietly, beneath the surface, in ways we often only recognize looking back. God's tenderness becomes more noticeable than the fear. Hope returns -- not loudly, not all at once, but really. Volume III -- Hope and Restoration -- walks with you through thirteen weeks of daily Scripture and guided reflection, gently opening the door to a hope that doesn't demand certainty before it enters. Something in you is healing. You don't have to be afraid of that. Through Scripture, guided reflection, and the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, each day offers an invitation to slow down, sit with God's Word, and discover what has always been true -- that God does not wait for fear to end before drawing close. Volume III of the four-volume Held series -- 52 weeks of daily Catholic prayer and reflection for anxious hearts seeking hope and restoration - [Held: Volume II — Perseverance and Surrender](https://xavierpublishing.com/product/held-volume-ii-perseverance-and-surrender/): Still afraid. But no longer alone. Volume I named the fear and discovered God already present in it. Volume II is about what comes next -- pushing through even when nothing feels resolved. Letting go of the belief that we must always be brave in the face of fear. Perseverance isn't about strength. It isn't about gritting your teeth and pushing through alone. True perseverance is relinquishing control to God and allowing Him to act. It is trying -- imperfectly, repeatedly, faithfully -- while depending not on human bravado but on divine courage. Volume II -- Perseverance and Surrender -- walks with you through thirteen weeks of daily Scripture and guided reflection, inviting you to release the need to feel strong and discover that God's steadiness does not depend on yours. Faith often looks like staying. God meets us there. Through Scripture, guided reflection, and the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, each day offers an invitation to slow down, sit with God's Word, and discover what has always been true -- that God does not wait for fear to end before drawing close. Volume II of the four-volume Held series -- 52 weeks of daily Catholic prayer and reflection for anxious hearts learning perseverance and surrender. - [Held Volume I - Awareness & Trust](https://xavierpublishing.com/product/held-volume-i-awareness-trust/): Fear doesn't wait for a convenient moment. Neither does God. Held is a thirteen-week daily devotional for anyone navigating anxiety, fear, or the exhausting weight of uncertainty. Through Scripture, guided reflection, and the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, each day offers an invitation to slow down, sit with God's Word, and discover what has always been true -- that God does not wait for fear to end before drawing close. Volume I -- Awareness & Trust -- meets you exactly where you are. Not where you wish you were. Not on the other side of healing. Right here, in the middle of it, where God's hand is already reaching. You don't have to have it figured out to begin. 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