A repentant heart

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Luke 5:27-32 

Day 4: What we can do this day is reflect on the repentant heart.

A repentant heart needs a change in one's outlook of life; an overhaul perhaps, on one's outlook at regards faith and relationship with God.  God's graces may be likened to a flowing river filled with fresh waters to enrich the body and soul.  It is always on the giving end, never losing its freshness, nor falling into the danger of drying up.

The faith that God gives us comes from his very Godhead, a loving Father who supplies every good thing to us.  Furthermore, Jesus supplies us with the grace of forgiveness and salvation to help us rise up from our death to sin to resurrection to life.

The Holy Spirit supplies us each day with graces to be shared to others; endless amount of graces to help our brothers and sisters with life.

What we can do is to offer to the Lord a repentant heart that seeks to change one's life into what God wants.  We could also ask to be more of givers rather than receivers of God's manifold graces.

A repentant heart can be molded more than a hardened heart.

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