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