Monday, March 20, 2017
Spring Equinox, 5:28
am
Reading: Psalm 95
“Do
not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, when your ancestors tested me.” Psalm 95:8
Pray with your lips, so that you may pray with your mind, so
that you may pray with your heart. This is an aim of prayer, of fasting, of
acts of love - to engage the heart, to encounter the changing power of God.
"Create in me a clean heart" we sing on Ash Wednesday and all through
the Sundays in Lent. In A
Simple Way To Pray, Martin Luther wrote that we should pray the scriptures and
the creeds daily "and use them as flint and steel to kindle a flame in the
heart." The heart is where the whole person comes together - body, mind,
and spirit. It is where change takes place, where transformation happens. As
St. Makarius the Egyptian wrote: "The heart is a small vessel; and yet
dragons and lions are there, and there poisonous creatures and all the
treasures of wickedness; rough uneven paths are there, and gaping chasms. There
likewise is God, there are angels, the heavenly cities and the treasuries of
grace; all things are there." (Homilies
43:7)
Pour
your love into our hearts, O God, through your Holy Spirit. Amen
- Drink water instead of a cup
of coffee today. Set aside the money saved for an act of love.
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