May our hearts be known

Calvin: Do you think morality is defined by our actions or what’s in our hearts

Hobbes: Our actions show what is in our hearts

(Silence)

Calvin: I resent that

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We can close our eyes

We can push those thoughts away

That haunt us

But in the end when we look in the mirror we know

Everyone knows

If they are willing to see

What is in our hearts

It has been said

“you will know them by their fruits”

(some guy named Jesus)

And so it is

Sometimes the fruits are not just bad

They are toxic, devastating, deadly

We see the violence (as missiles land and children die)

We see the poor and the vulnerable abandoned

We see people who are black minimized, oppressed, even killed

In such actions hearts are revealed

And they are not in the “right place”

By their actions we know them

We know then that these are hearts set on hate

Hearts full of fear, greed,

and arrogance

But so is mine

In my fear

In my failure to care

The fruit of my life is often isolation

Distance, neglect

In my failure to connect well with others

My failure to listen, to act with compassion

My inability to embrace rather than exclude

The poverty of my own heart is revealed

Ah may the love flow

From wherever love comes

May it fill all our hearts

And in the filling

May it overflow

And through the overflow

Through the love

May our hearts be known