A matter of the heart

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”

― St. Francis of Assisi

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Ah, it is Sunday morning O God

and soon I will be asked to proclaim

peace

love

the good news

soon I will be asked to stand

in front of people who love God

and seek God

and say

something

anything

that will help them on their journey

help me to remember O Sacred One

that the most profound sermon I preach

will be in the time before

and after I preach

that my strongest message will be

in the attention I pay the person who is feeling without value

in the light squeeze of the hand, of the widow who is feeling so alone

it will be in that moment when I kneel down and talk with a child

Remind me O God of love

That my most authentic message will be preached

when I open my heart

and let Your love flow

to whomever

is

there