Greetings Dear Reader,
Have you ever considered how meat tenderizer works? “The two main ingredients in most powdered
tenderizers are papain, found in papayas, and bromelain, found in pineapples.
Both enzymes attack the muscle fibers and the collagen webs that holds them
together. This softens the meat and makes it more tender. It is also why you
cannot put raw papaya or pineapple in gelatin desserts. The papain and bromelain
break down the gelatin, just as they do the collagen in meats.”
That will handle the cooking lesson for the morning except
to remind us that meat is muscle tissue.
That is important to my thoughts this morning. You see, the heart is a muscle. The holiday season acts as a meat tenderizer
on many people but we then get back to “normal”. It is like we sprinkle meat hardener on our
hearts. The yielded grace, kindness, and
generosity are locked back inside until the cycle returns.
We do not have to un-soften our hearts. We are not obligated to put away compassion
and joy with the lights and wrapping. It
is always allowed that we have a heart that is loving and kind. It can be hard to tenderize our hearts. Fortunately, there is a remedy for that. The Father wishes for us to remain tenderhearted
towards him. He says in Ezekiel, “I
will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from
you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put
my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to
keep my laws.”
If we choose to avoid getting back to normal, we can create
a new norm of tenderness to the Spirit moving us to continue in generosity,
joy, kindness, and love. The way of things is to become closed to the joy that
is available to us every day. We can
remain tenderhearted. We can choose to
set a new level in our lives.
To continue to walk on the foundation of love, we must keep
our hearts tender and pliable. We have
all had tough steaks that could have used some meat tenderizer. We have all encountered people whose hearts
are hard. There are times when life
pushes us to be hardhearted. The busyness
of business drives us to forget that other humans need the beauty of our
kindness and love in every situation.
I must have a laser focus on my love and kindness for
others. I must be so engaged in loving
others that everyday offenses that harden my heart are ineffective. I must yield to the Spirit moving me to keep
the law of Christ in everything. The law
is founded on this, Dear Reader: loving the Father with all our heart, mind,
soul, and strength and loving other humans unconditionally. If we do this, our hearts become tender. We may be hurt or saddened by others but we
will not take up offenses. I know that
this is the path I must walk. I hope you
can keep me company on it. I love you
and treasure your companionship.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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