Awakening Your Receptive Heart

 Wednesday Wisdom: The Receptivity of the Heart.

We continue this month exploring and discovering what it means to live with more receptivity to our deepest self, to the Holy One, and to one another. Let us turn towards God, as we begin this season of Lent, not with a laundry list of what we are not, but with a receptive heart towards God’s Great Generosity.

This is a time to sit quietly in the home of your heart, and become receptive to how the Holy One is loving you. Lent is a season of love.

This is a season of self-reflection, so we pause and ask ourselves:

• Where and how am I open to receiving God’s Great Love?
• Where and how am I closed?

These two simple questions can become a daily reflection during this time: looking at how we stay open and receptive to God’s Great Love in our hearts, in our lives, in our relationship with ourselves and with others; and how we are closed from receiving and giving it.

And we have faith that God is saying to us: There is no place in you I cannot reach. We pray for God to heal us, and to make us more receptive, and open, and capable of being and living this Great Love.

We live surrounded by noise: in our minds, in our hearts, all around us. Even spiritual noise, constantly being told about God. But can we allow this season to be a quieter time, a time when we become more receptive to listening in our hearts, and deepen our intimate relationship with the Divine?

Today, I hear in my heart these words, and I invite you to hear them with me:

“My heart is ready, O God:
I will sing, sing your praise:
Awake, my soul;
awake, lyre and harp.
I will awake the dawn.”
–psalm 108

Blessings on this time of awakening.