Heart Surgery

What Christianity needs is an exposure to the life-giving logic of the beatitudes and the blessedness of their fearsome surgery. But is this surgery that we want? Would we rather have a mortal disease festering in us than to endure the pain of radical heart surgery?

Many times I think the answer is, ‘yes.’ We would rather have other peoples problems pointed out than to endure the pain of having my toes stepped on, or worse yet my heart laid bare. Are we so foolish to think that God does not see the sickness within? Do we think we can hide? No, may God grant us the grace to endure the loving hands of a wonderful surgeon. May he prune and in the end may we bear much fruit!