An open heart is a sincere smile,
an invitation to talk, exuberant and
oxygen-filled lungs form love-laded, caring words,
audible, these kisses of attention, desire and delight.
For one heart talking to another.
“knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Gospel of Luke
How do we move our hearts into a place where offer “no resistance” to those who are evil to us? I don’t think God is instructing us not to protect ourselves or those who may hurt us in a time of war or peril, but rather to have a open heart to all those who do evil and add pain to our lives.
I see this as almost having “forgiveness” built into to our nature, we do not judge, we might pray for those who are afflicted with “an uncaring heart” or “nature”. Of course we know that these things are also often a product of others treatment of them, either instructing them poorly, or setting an example that is not what God would want.
Today, perhaps we can examine who are treating in a less than forgiving way, that may lead us towards a purer heart.
Drifting on, increasing the list of those you dislike, avoid them at all costs, cutting off family and friends is not the message that Jesus Christ was trying to bring. Hard as it is to expunge dislike for those you are unkind or worst to us, we have to keep an open heart; otherwise they infect us with the poison from a relationship gone wrong, that we carry that in us, infecting all we do.
Gospel Mt 5:43-48
Daily prayers and meditations 