OPEN UP YOUR HEARTS

OPEN UP YOUR HEARTS (To God and others) WE LIVE in a tough TOUGH world And the people I am Running into- Are getting tougher By the day And living with CLOSED and hardened hearts In early spring Farmers till the soil It is a process That is especially helpful In removing weeds And unwanted roots Tilling breaks up the ground So that it will be More RECEPTIVE To whatever is planted And will help bring A NEW HARVEST “BREAK UP yourselves A new field For it is time To SEEK the Lord ….....” Hosea 10:12 Just like in tilling And in the breaking up Of the ground We NEED to break up Our hardened hearts We need to: “BREAK UP for ourselves A new field” So that we can SEEK GOD- And find God LIVING beneath The hardness of our own hearts OPEN UP your hearts To God Open up your hearts-FOR OTHERS- My dear friends We need to CREATE A brand new harvest There is NO ROOM Within us-for a LOVING SPIRIT- If we have a hardened heart “CREATE in me A PURE HEART-O God- And renew a steadfast spirit Within me” Psalm 51:10 “A CHEERFUL HEART Is good medicine But a crushed spirit Dries up the bones” Proverbs 18:22 Till that soil In your heart There is NO room To grow in life To grow in SPIRIT With a hardened heart OPEN UP your hearts To God Open up your hearts For others The HARVEST is ready “Then he said To his disciples: 'The harvest is plentiful But the workers are few ASK the Lord of the harvest Therefore-to send out workers Into his harvest field” Matthew 9:37-38 Dear Lord- HELP us to overcome The hardness of the heart Help us to overcome The weeds and the roots Standing in our way Dear Lord-we pray For an OPEN HEART To you and for others And we pray for GROWTH In the life of the SPIRIT As we pray for the harvest And CULTIVATION of ALL human hearts- To you and to LOVE In Jesus' name, Robert P. Wallman 7-6-16 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.