Take My Heart Lord

Dear Sisters,

I am currently reading Sr. Faustina's Diary.  Sometimes when I am reading something the saints have written, I feel a real pang of sweet pain for the love they have for our Lord.  It reminds me that I have a long way to go.

In Sr. Faustina's Diary (No. 57), she says "Oh, if I could only cut my heart into tiny pieces and in this way offer to You, O Jesus each piece as a heart whole and entire to make up in part for the hearts that do not love You!"

Imagine, each tiny piece of her heart a whole and complete loving heart to offer the Lord to make up for so many that don't give Jesus any part of their hearts.  This lovely thought struck so powerfully that it kept coming up at odd times to remind me to love Jesus in every moment as well as I can.

Today as the Eucharist was being distributed, it occurred to me that Jesus too cuts himself into tiny pieces so that each of us can have all of him 'body, blood, soul and divinity' in each and every host.

This reminds me that as we come to know and love Jesus more, we become more like Him and so it flows naturally and beautifully that we want to do for Him what He already does for us.

My nature is to 'do-do-do'.  At work I am pulled in dozens of directions.  I give of myself to my husband, my children, my family, my friends, my co-workers, the families I serve...but all?  Not usually.  I give some of my attention, some of my strength, some of my kindness, some of my love.  Instead of cutting myself into WHOLE tiny pieces and giving all to each endeavor, I cut myself into
selfish little pieces and tell myself that it is enough. 

Imagine if Jesus did that?  Instead of offering himself wholly and completely on the cross, imagine if he held some of himself back?  We would be right back where we started in the Garden, following the snake instead of our Father.

So today, I ask Jesus to grant me the grace to be 'all in'.  Not to do as Dusty Springfield
suggests and only give 'a little piece of my heart', but to do as Sr. Faustina suggests and give all to all and in that way imitate He who is Love.

Wishing you all peace on this beautiful Sunday!