The world needs more than the secret holiness of individual inwardness. It needs more than sacred sentiments and good intentions. God asks for the heart because He needs the lives. It is by lives that the world will be redeemed, by lives that beat in concordance with God, by deeds that outbeat the finite charity of the human heart. - From God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel


Does your life beat in concordance with God? What prevents it? Are you taking steps this Lenten season to enter more fully into the rhythm of God's Will?