Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY: 6/16

Every Friday and the whole month of June are days of special devotion to the Heart of Jesus – as is June 16, the feast of the Lord’s Sacred Heart.

How amazing the human heart, Lord!

It
doesn’t take up too much space

– but
oh, what it can hold!

My heart keeps the breadth and depth

of all the love I’ve known

and all the love I’ve shared

– and all the harm I’ve done…

My heart holds the gift of faith,

the grace that makes me one with you

and makes for you a home

within my soul…

My heart knows all the stories of my life,

those I know so well

and the ones I’ve long forgotten…

My heart holds the stories others share with me,

safe-kept for me to carry, easing others’ burdens,

lifting up what weighs them down:

what’s heavy on my neighbor’s heart

rests lighter when it’s shared with mine…

My heart stores secrets told in trust,
with the confidence I’ll reverence what’s been shared
and gently hold and guard the whispered words
entrusted to my care…

My heart fills up with others’ tears and sorrows,

with their fears, their worries and concerns

and my heart welcomes in the troubles

others bring and leave at my heart’s door…

My heart floods with rivers, wept

by those whose pain has crested,

overflowing banks of hurt and loss:

pouring forth the truth tears freely spill

without a trace of fear or shame…

And my heart swells

in making room for joy that others share:

the blessing of their laughter echoes in my soul,

ringing out your grace,

anointing me with peace…

If my heart holds all this, Lord,
then what must your heart carry
   in all its many chambers:
   in all the rooms you’ve readied
    for our hearts to find a home?

If
my heart holds such treasures, Lord,

I simply can’t imagine

all the mercy, grace and peace awaiting us

in the chambers of your heart,

expanding
in eternity

to be the home for every restless soul…

I
offer you this morning, Lord,

all those who have a place within my heart

and
those who make a place for me in theirs

that we might all be one

in the very heart of love,

in your gracious and sacred, saving heart.

Amen.

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