I remember the first heart transplant when I was a freshman in college. To some of you reading this, that must seem like an incredibly long time ago. But in the whole history of humanity, the last 40+ years are just a speck of time. And yet the words of the Ash Wednesday prayer speaks new hearts. And Psalm 51, which is part of the day's worship, speaks of a "clean" heart. What effect would a new, clean heart have on our lives in a spiritual and emotional way? We could be done with all our old hurts. We could see the world anew and have confidence that those things we do in faith could bear fruit in our time and beyond.
In Lent we may not get completely new hearts, but by our attention to prayer and other time spent in reflection and attention to God's will in our lives, we can scrub some of the rust and callouses off the heart we have. We can strengthen them so that they become healthy organs of caring and willful determination to do the best we can with each day.
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