Diana has a
great recipe for deviled eggs. The key ingredient
of course is the need for hard boiled eggs and lots of seasoning. How do you
take a regular egg and turn it into hard boiled? Place it in boiling water for a period of
time and that hardens everything within.
How about
your heart? How do you harden your heart
or the hearts of those around you? You boil
the heart for a period of time. Not in
water, but with cruel comments, with exposure to cutting remarks, with
disrespect, with contempt, with lies, with betrayal. Add a little spice in there and you have a
deviled heart!
Once the egg
is hard boiled, you can’t turn back the process. However, that is not true for the human heart. I am living proof of a hardened heart going
soft. But you need some time and special ingredients. You need to cover the hard hearted person in
prayer, you need to change their programming, and you need to surround them in
love. Then Voila – a Soft Heart!
Ezekiel 36:25- 27 “Then it will be as
though I had sprinkled clean water on you, for you will be clean – your filthiness
will be washed away, your idol worship gone. And I will give you a new heart –
I will give you new and right desires – and put a new spirit within you. I will take out your stony hearts of sin and
give you new hearts of love. And I will put
my Spirit within you so that you will obey my laws and do whatever I
command.
So today
Lord, we thank You for allowing us to have soft hearts. We pray for all those whose hearts have gone
hard and whose eyes no longer see. We ask for forgiveness for the times that we
have caused others to become hardened based on our actions, our words or our
attitudes. We pray for the opportunity
to help those who are hardened today, to reverse the process and guide them to
Angelic Hearts. Allow us to be the ones
to help them reverse the process. Amen.
Have a Soft
Heart Day.
Tim
Victory is ours already!
(Thank you Tim for allowing me to share this post)
Tim
Victory is ours already!
(Thank you Tim for allowing me to share this post)
I think that was a great post- I think you have to be ever vigilant to keep your heart soft - it is so easy when it gets cold to get stiffer and stiffer then it's hard. sandie
ReplyDeleteWonderful post to read before going to Mass.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day.
Balisha
What a thought-provoking piece! Or, should I have said, "prayer-provoking."
ReplyDeleteRegretfully, during my life (so far!) I've experienced both sides.
Still, I think there has to come a time, when after overtures are made and ignored/rejected ... one has to re-evaluate the value of that relationship and, if necessary, find a new "egg." Life's too short!
Wishing you n' Harold a sweet Sunday!
Myra
Good morning to you sweet friend of mine,
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful illustration you have shared .. How true every word here is .. YeP, to forgive and move on is what makes a hard heart soft again .. Soo much easier for the Lord to mold and move softened hearts, than it is to use a hardened one !! How much happier we are to move on and let go as well .. Life is to short to arbor bitterness, resentment, and fill it with negetive people and situations .. I say, keep a pure, light heart filled with LOVE and HoPe and everyones life would be soo much happier, fulfilling and FULL of JoY !!
Always LOVE your shares .. soo from the heart, and for you, I am eternally grateful .. I AM !!
Big Hugs ~TeA~ xo
Great post! wishing you a wonderful summer.
ReplyDeleteA lot to think about there. Very inspirational for meditation today. Blessings
ReplyDeleteQMM
Beautiful Marydon! The heart shaped egg is cute! I have seen on another blog how you can do that but I haven't tried it.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Angela
Hey Sis...
ReplyDeleteI love this post. Just makes one sit and ponder does it not?
The Lord does love our heart soft, so that it can be open, loving and kind. It can be molded when it is soft.
Our hearts our full of LOVE, LAUGHTER and JOY. Thank you for keeping mine softened over the years dear Sis. You have always been there when I needed you most.
Hope you are having a beautiful day. I am off to do a few more things and get my post up as well. I love you SOOOOO much, and miss you horribly. All my love, your lil sis, Sherry
Wow, what a wonderful post. Such food for thought. Thanks you so much. This was just perfect for Sunday reflections.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true, Very good, thought provoking post..Thanks for sharing..Hope you're having a nice Sunday...Blessings, Susie
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful post!
ReplyDeleteI love it.
I love this Marydon. No truer words.
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Wonderful post today Marydon!I love Ezekial 36:26 and it is a prayer of my heart constantly that he take my heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh that beats only for Him.
ReplyDeleteI love deviled eggs:). Nice to keep the heart from getting hard! Have a blessed day! Hugs
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful and though provoking post!
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful and I think we have all met someone who seems to have a hardened heart...the wonderful thing is that sometimes it doesn't take much to soften it.
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