Open Ears, Receptive Hearts, Active Hands
Sunday 9 February 2025
Grow, People, Grow Love,
With Joy and Hope
Ezekiel 3:10
He said to me: Mortal, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart and hear with your ears.
Matthew 13:23
But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.
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Words of Grace For Today
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Receive and hear …
Oh, if it were just so simple for us to choose to be good soil for the Word of God …
Though too often, we choose so simply and thoroughly to turn our ears and hearts from God’s Word, to live out our lives as if other words could give us the goodness of life.
God gives us ears that hear, and hearts that receive God’s Word. We cannot choose to have these ears and hearts. Nor can we choose to take to heart what we hear and be those who live out God’s Word for others, so that they see God’s Word alive in our words and actions, hearing God’s Word with open ears and hearts.
We can, as we too often do, turn from being what God created us to be. We can choose to be deaf, blind, and dumb, really stupid, about what life is, and what is good in life.
For there is nothing more blessed than to be the ones who plant seeds of grace, love, and hope in the world for others to encounter.
So we pray, may we be your ears, hearts, and hands in this troubled world. Forgive us when we turn away. Forgive us for our frequent stupidity. Forgive us our hard hearts, deaf ears, and dumb tongues. Save us. Renew our hearts, ears, and tongues, that we can find joy in this life amidst all the challenges that come at us, day after day.