The Comfort of His Heart.

To believe we are worthy of love is one of the hardest things to comprehend. We are thrown into a world that tells us success will help us gain what love cannot. A world that tells us we have to fight and kick and scream and do what we have to do for love.

We can imagine 200 scenarios of how that first date was supposed to go.

We can replay the conversations that flipped your world upside down and re-script it so you weren’t so reactive.

We can scroll through instagram and pretend not to check up on those people who deemed us unworthy.

With a delicate heart, our world can seem so aggressive and out to get us. When in reality our heart should be out to get the world, spreading what truths we know to everyone who will listen.

The truth that the love we are seeking was already won over 2,000 years ago on a cross.

The truth that the heart of Jesus Christ is tender enough for our tough lives. For our stubborn egos and our self destroying lies.

The heart of Jesus can permeate through our very being and whisper in the tiniest breath that we are worthy and knock us off our feet into the long awaited warmth of comfort that can cure it all. 

To have trust that our very lives are weaved by the Father and that no act goes unnoticed, no struggle, no sleepless night, no stubborn conversation we have with ourselves on how we could’ve said this or should’ve done that. 

It all ends up in His hands. It all ends up in His heart. Our worries and regrets hit the surface of His merciful heart and melt into nothingness. So all those nights or worries for those long awaited texts or spiritual attacks that leave us disturbed and uneasy are morsels of nothingness.

Focus on your breathing, the very breath He gave you.

Allow yourself to reach forward. To the merciful heart of Jesus and place all the energy that is heavy on your shoulders, your temples, your mind, your heart, place it on your finger tips. Allow your fingers to gently graze the most perfect heart of Jesus and have the radiating warmth drain them from your existence. Every sacrament we have taken part of has helped us reach this point, where we can trust Him with every worry we might have. Relish in the moment where you get to feel so light without fear yet fully submerged in the comfort of His heart.

Ask yourself, how am I bringing this truth to the world? How can I focus on my personal prayer so it makes it easier to share this goodness?

This reflection was written for Daughters of Zion Fall 2018 Retreat, but I hope you enjoy it as much as my sisters did!