Mind in the heart

Jesus comes to transform our divided inner world, the world within. He is not hesitant to enter into a fully human body with its feelings, fully human intellect with its reasoning, fully human will with its power, fully human emotions with their pursuits, and fully human spirit with its likeness to His divinity. He shows the way of transformation when He lives in a harmonious state of continual peace and glory, day by day, year by year, decade by decade, coming as all of us, as a baby, and moving in the world that was made by Him. His inner world of thinking, feeling, believing, judging, desiring, creating, and deciding follows the perfect pattern of integration of heaven into earth. The way of transformation He proposes is to keep the mind in the heart and dip it continually in His life, suffering, and resurrection with all words, actions, and silences in between, the known and unknown, the painful and beautiful, the coming and going. No other human trick, however religious and spiritual it may sound, will not come close to His way of having Life-Spirit within.

That's what prayer is: encountering the Real and agreeing to be taken by it to the point of incarnational fusion.

Tell your mind to slide down to your heart.

Stay still until it rests in there. Invite the Holy Spirit to be the Comforter.

Let them look at each other: Mind at the Spirit. Spirit at the mind. Heart at the Spirit. Spirit at your heart. Mind at heart. Heart at your mind.

What are the points of joy, redemption, healing? What are the points of conflict, fear, disagreement?

What needs Life to connect with the other?

What grace of God do you need to unite them?

Does it look like Jesus?

Does it love with the Father's love?

Stay there.