As we enter Lent, Mary Therese reflects on heartbreak and hope.
How can we be loved and ever remain the same! How can we love and not be changed! Both the lover and the loved are transformed. Love heals, love grows, love renews, love pierces the darkness of our hearts, love turns sorrow into joy, love gives vision, love strengthens, love gives life, love gives meaning and value. We must love one another if we are to become our truest selves. We become who we are truly meant to be when we are loved, and love in return.
Jesus offers us His very heart to love with. He has a burning desire to heal all that has been hurt and lost. He told us that He will make all things new,(Rev. 21:5) that he has overcome the “world”: our hearts. (John 16:33) He took on a human heart to have it broken. Jesus understands the broken-hearted. Let Jesus in. Once He is in, you can almost hear Him say, “My child, do you think I will fix your brokenness with the same parts from which it was broken? No…I will replace all that is lost and broken with the precious gems and jewels of My Merciful Love and pour My Precious Blood over you as if it were liquid gold, filling, binding, healing all…all that is lacking and lost and broken, even the things others have stolen from you. I give you back your worth and dignity. I will replace and transform those parts of your heart with something infinitely more precious—My own Heart. How I long to receive you! ALL of you! Hold nothing back. If only you knew what loving reverence and respect I have for you. I dare you to believe, to let Me love you, and you will not be the same.”
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