Calm Your Heart

So today's Gospel was the classic Beatitudes, and God told me to "Calm my heart"?

For the first time today, I prayed what I will always be praying at every Sunday Mass: "God, show me one way in this Mass that I can become a better-version-of-myself this week!" I guess He wants me to be a little more prepared within myself before I receive the deeper meanings of the Liturgy of the Word. That's fine with me. In fact, I completely understand.

Those that know me know that I talk a lot. I used to say that I love to talk, but after 35-years I've been realizing that the "gift" of gab can frequently be a reliability. With this new-found deeper prayer life, I know that I need to listen as much as I talk to God - if not more. Of course, what came to me was to calm my heart, not my lips, so I am interested in how having a calm heart affect my voice. I have a loving heart, I just need to get out of its way.

So please pray for me as I contemplate what the Lord has said to me in this Sunday's Mass.