Why Open Hearts?
The physical heart is delicate, even fragile, and yet it powers the pulse of life. Beyond the physical heart, beyond the limited organ of the body is the Heart within the heart. We call this our spiritual heart. It has an unlimited capacity for life, for wisdom and love.
Our Heart within the heart is not really located in the body at all, but is part of the deep wellspring of Truth, the home of our real Self, and the dwelling place of God. It is the locus of discernment and the center out of which we feel our grand or God-given Desires. To reach it we must quiet the mind, softly search within, and listen. Perhaps then we notice the Voice for Love, Who comes as Answer to our questions and problems. The Voice for Love may be understood as the Voice of Holy Spirit or Christ.
The Foundation of Open Hearts recognizes the value and power in openheartedness. To open is to look beyond the paradigms and thought-processes of small mind toward the infinite thoughts of God. To open is to offer willingness to know and live our created meaning and purpose. We decide for vulnerability. We approach our life with honesty, acceptance, forgiveness, and patience. We listen with an inner ear for the whisper of Spirit and resist not against Its Word.
In time, with practice and faith, our false self gives way to a Love that speaks, that Guides,that moves us. We feel life in a different way. We feel Presence, and live in the mystery of an indwelling Love. This indwelling Love reaches beyond our individuality to join with every heart, sharing God’s Life, awakening through union with all of creation, establishing holy relationships inplace of our self-elational situations. Anyone who wishes holy and loving relationship with God and with others finds them through the opened Heart.
To Open the Heart is to Invite Love to make a Home Within.
This is no flimsy invitation. This is putting a sign on the rusted door of the life you thought you lived alone and cherished as your own. This is undoing the bolt with a kind of trust that It will move in and somehow, together you will clean things up, make long overdue renovations, and maybe, snuggle.
It doesn’t matter that you don’t know what you’re getting into. The invitation comes from a moment of desperation, of crisis and chaos and immense Desire.
You are appealing from a broken heart, a lonely spirit, a sense of having lived behind bars too long. To open the heart is to be willing to open your life to change, to be available to something other than your worn out defenses.
Love, as you welcome it, is not merely a tenant. You, the one who believed she was decision maker, find you’ve relinquished your own bed to make room for It. This is no ordinary affair. This Love cleaves! This Love becomes ruler of your thoughts, your words and choices. Its Presence makes all your individual decisions obsolete, but one, the decision to be vulnerable to Its Way within you. Its Way is redemption. Its Way is God.
The power of personal freedom moves then, into abdication of individual preference toward the indescribable divinity, holiness, blazing beauty, wisdom and Omnificence of Love. That is beyond your small mind. That is consciousness expanded and unified with something infinitely greater.
Behind all your little thoughts and identities, Love shines as true Self, true God, one in Being with the Source of all that is created. It can’t wait to abide where you open, to guide as you allow. It Answers every invitation with Yes.
Of course this doesn’t happen overnight, though you believed you could reel it in and cast it out. You believe in one night stands. Not yet faithful, not yet committed, you still dream of other lovers, other Answers.
Love, however, is forever, gently abiding, tiptoeing into the dark nights of your soul, whispering within as you search too many years for something more, something meaningful.
One day you recognize how wide the door has swung. You were certain it was not you who left things so vulnerably exposed. But then, the breeze blows through and you realize how sublimely content you are, how smitten with Life, how easy it is to hear the Voice that thanks you for the invitation and the open heart. The Guest has come and made a home in you. Now it is your turn. Whose heart will become a perfect dwelling place for your Love?
Copyright marybethscalice 2018