Open Your Heart
Whenever we open our heart to another, we will find that joy surges throughour soul. Even when our lives are overflowing with activity, even when weare so lonely or bored that all we can do is feel the ache of emptiness,even when we are in the midst of despair as deep as a bottomless canyon,even when we feel as aimless and meaningless as a mosquito.Whenever---wherever---we open our heart to another, we will find that joysurges through our soul.
When we open our heart to someone, we allow God's Spirit within us towelcome God's Spirit in another. We are taken beyond the walls of our ownlives and placed in a space of holy love---a space too mystical for words todescribe. It is like the still space between the night and dawn, the stillspace as the budding flower opens its petals, the still space between sleepand wakefulness. In that space, there is a holy encounter, and in thatencounter nothing exists but that moment and that person and that space. Andyes, joy surges through our soul, as if it were a kite leaping into the sky.
O God, let me know that in the mystical moment when My heart greets the heart of another, I will see your face.
-Renée Miller