Enlarging the Boundaries of My Heart — Howard Thurman

Some food for thought in a world filled with fear, hatred, and division. Oh God, make room in our hearts for compassion…

God is making room in my heart for compassion: the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that the sensitiveness to your needs cannot be separated from the sensitiveness to my needs; the awareness that the joys of my heart are never mine alone—nor are my sorrows. I struggle against the work of God in my heart; I want to be left alone. I want my boundaries to remain fixed, that I may be at rest. But even now as I turn to [God] in the quietness, [God’s] work in me is ever the same.

God is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart.

Meditations of the Heart, p. 49