“May your mercy always find a pathway to my heart.”
This is a prayer that was given to me in contemplation and every time I read the words they touch my heart with an unexpected tenderness as if the goodness of God’s mercy has found it and warmed it again.
I feel I need to be constantly reminded of this prayer and to open my heart unto the goodness therein.
How often I need to feel God’s mercy, God’s kindness, God’s gentleness and God’s blessing upon me. How hard it is to always be gentle, kind and loving to myself. I find an immediacy in this prayer that makes it already so.
Not only does it remind me of the goodness and purity, the truth and lovliness of God’s presence with me and my need to accept His love, but it also reminds me of my need to open my heart in mercy to others, just as God instantly opens His heart to me.
It is this love that brings mercy to be a living actuality, not just a concept. It is mercy that transcends all pain, all sorrow, all hurt, all unforgiveness, all wounding to say : .
This is how I want to live, in the fullness of God’s mercy, in the absolute beingness of love.
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