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A Priest's Heart
Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:05
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A Priest's Heart
The Calling: Lord, I am Unworthy
Initially hesitant, content to idle away.
Beating strong, my fickle heart was following its own way
A whisper in the darkness, was heard, faint at first.
Awakened within me a spiritual thirst.
Its sound was unsettling, containing a sweet, ever so gentle rhyme.
Causing my heart to beat to another tune, one I had ignored for a time.
My heart felt a new sensation of loving,
emerging from the mysterious encounter, an invitation.
Freely extended, a beckoning, to follow another’s way, an irresistible prompting, to consider carefully, prayerfully, a calling to a priestly vocation.
My heart protested, proclaimed the obvious,
“I am unworthy, Lord leave me, for I am a sinful man,”
an echo of Peter; a denial, an admission of weakness.
Yet though unworthy, only he, the Christ, can lead me to holiness.
Only he can soothe my path to eternity,
Only he can reveal the agony and the ecstasy
of following the Christ along the journey he wills for me.
So it was in trembling sincerity
And despite being forever unworthy,
I began to delve with all my heart into the story
of a wonderful love that had captured me,
and had at the same time set my willing heart free.
Fr. Patrick Brennan © 2015
Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-priests-heart.html
