Examining Your Own Heart

Mary

The wheat and the weeds are planted in every human heart. They live in the feelings, the hopes and especially in the choices and decisions. Every day, the person experiences an inner stream of happiness or sadness, of peace or of turmoil. They look to outside forces as the cause of their inner emotions, but they seldom look within. They do not ask, “What forces are within me that cause these problems?”

To look within and to see these evil weeds is the beginning of conversion, the great grace of turning fully to God. O reader, will you have the courage to travel with me into the recesses of your own heart and to honestly see the evil seeds that Satan’s work has placed there? If so, great inner changes can take place. Do not worry about the locutions changing the world. It is much more important that they change you.

Comment: A disciple once said to St. Francis of Assisi, “We must change the world”. St. Francis answered, “That is an excellent idea. Let us begin with ourselves”. Mary wants us to begin with ourselves.