“Come
to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give
you rest.” Mt. 11:28
When
we recently celebrated the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I was reflecting on what this
means in my life, and I realized that to place your heart in Jesus’ Sacred
Heart and to just rest there in Him is a bit like dialysis. What His
Heart is filled with is what we want to be filled with, and what He longs to
fill us with, even if it means dying on the cross for us, which He has.
But
how does this happen? How is it that what is in His Heart can fill our
poor, broken, isolated or hungry hearts? It is like dialysis, where what
is in His heart is able to get across the membrane that surrounds our
heart, fitting in through the tiniest of holes, where we are open to His
grace. The more we open our hearts in love, trust and gratitude, the more
those graces can flow.
Not
only do the good things from the Lord come into our hearts, but things from our
heart can go to His Heart as well. Our praise and our love, spoken from
our heart to His, must bring Him joy. All the things that had been
filling our hearts up till now, things that we sometimes don’t really want, can
also come out through those little holes, into His Heart. Jesus then
takes them upon Himself for us. Yet, though He carries these burdens for
us, He never resents us for it. Instead, Jesus rejoices when we allow Him
to love us as we are and to heal us in those ways, for He loves us and wants us
to be free.
Jesus
also invites us at times to take the hurts of others into our hearts and to
give them over to Him as we pray in a special way for someone who is hurting,
take the first step to reach out in forgiveness, or serve the people around us
in the myriad of ways, both seen and unseen, in which the Lord is calling us to
make His merciful love visible… all through the transforming love of His Sacred
Heart.
- Sister M. Lucy, FSGM
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