Connecting with Your Heart

Stop the flow of your words,
Open the window of your heart and,
Let the spirit speak.
-Rumi

‘The wounded yet radiant heart of Christ, encircled by a wreath of thorns, sprouting grapevines, wheat and a cross from its severed aorta and bleeding into a chalicelike font conveys the transformation of Christ’s love and sacrifice into the elements of the Eucharist. So can the deepest pain, when fully held and suffered in the heart’s vessel, be gradually distilled into the redemptive.’*

Haven’t we all had our hearts broken? It mostly seems to be focused on a severed relationship: a deceit, a betrayal, a loss, a misunderstanding.  

Thorns encircled my heart when I discovered my husband was still married to another woman. I had nursed him through years of illness and yet even on his deathbed he didn’t come clean. I learned of his betrayal only after his death. 

Several years of law suites followed. I lost. 

It took me years to reopened my heart after it locked down. 

*Ronnenberg, Ami, editor. The Book of Symbols. p. 394

The Bleeding Heart (Lamb of God) 19th Century, Mexico