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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Sunday Reflection: Harden not your hearts

Demolitions continue...
Today's reflection is brought to you by 
Psalm 95.

Today the psalmist invites us to 
harden not [our] hearts.

Tall order in a world that says otherwise.

The world's voice encourages hardness.

Compete.
Overcome.
Win. 
Rise to the top.

But if we are to listen 
to Creator's voice within us
our hearts need to be soft,
pliant,
open
to others.

Creator calls us
to live with compassion
instead of judgment,
to walk with
rather than walk over
or around.

The world's advice
is not Creator's voice.

Creator,
help our soft-hearted witness 
to what you want for your world
become so compelling
that the most hardened hearts soften
so that everyone 
and everything
can be made whole.

Please soften the hearts
of all your people.

All of us.

+Amen

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