Midweek Meditation - The Heart You Want to Offer

       Each morning when we awake, we have an opportunity to choose to put on Christ, to wear our love for God on our sleeve, to let the Holy Spirit guide our day.  Recently I have had someone disappoint me, appear to lie - and it's not the first time.  So I've come to realize that what to do with this type of relationship is up to me.  I can't expect this person to change; I know how hard it is to want to change, much less to actually do the changing.  So I can only want to change myself ... and to take it farther, to become the person that I want to be in the face of whatever Life throws at me.

I can't help but think about the countless times that Jesus was disappointed according to scripture.  He lived a life of clarity and truth, of compassion and prayer, and yet everyone seemed to question who He was, where He came from, and by whose authority He did what He did - even those who knew him the best.  I think of how when the rooster crowed, right before His Passion and Death, how He turned to look at Peter.  The man that Christ would give His future Church to didn't have the courage to be truthful, when fear overtook him.

So this Midweek Meditation is about the type of heart that we want to have and how we want to offer it to God and to our neighbors.  Here's a few questions I will ponder, and offer to you, today:

 Do I live up to my potential as a child of God?

Am I living an authentic life, being the person that God created me to be?

Can love exist when there's fear or mistrust?

Do I have a "clean heart"? (Psalm 51)

Do I disappoint myself? Others?

With the help of the Holy Spirit, I can become the person that I hope to be: patient, kind, generous, loving, peace-filled, joyful, modest, self-disciplined, good, and faithful.  Will I disappoint myself and others?  Yes, because I'm human and so is everyone else on this earth.  Therefore, what I want from others, I must want from myself: A Heart Worthy to Offer.  💙