Fire in my Heart of Hearts

 After a busy day, my husband called me outside to warm by the fire

 he had kindled from limbs and branches that had fallen in recent winds and storms.

 I took my book out with me--The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy, by Penelope Wilcox.

I turned to my place in the the second chapter
of the second of three books combined in this one volume...

and just LOOK at the words that greeted me!

"Technology is man made and has no soul"

What followed these initial paragraphs were some of the most moving  and profound words

about the justice and mercy of God that I have read in a long time.

Punctuated by the flames, I read:

'It is true that God shapes the lives of men in the ways of justice, and that the righteous find expression of his Spirit in the paths of justice and of peace.  

But justice is a path, yes a way; it is not a home.  

It is a framework, or a setting, but it was made to carry another jewel.

Justice, like John the Baptist, is the forerunner,

clears the road, for the coming of the Christ himself.

And when he comes, he is compassion.

He is love...

Oh God forbid that our lives display the sterile correctness 
of men who have learned what justice is, but never tasted mercy.' 
 (Words of the beloved character, Father Peregrine)

I wiped away my tears of overwhelming realization of the mercy and love of God

that burned like a fire in my heart of hearts

and continued to the end of the amazing chapter.