Heart to Heart

"Cor ad cor loquitur," John Newman wrote,
this is our best relationship with Christ,
joined at the heart to One Who seems remote,
to us by words the Word of God enticed.
 
Christ gave Himself to us in Eucharist,
so in all ways He could stay with us here,
in food and love that we could not resist,
Whom we, Isaiah-like, delight to fear.

Heart speaks to heart, but not in words alone,
there is a power that motivates our love,
God gives to love a language all its own,
to bring us near the One we're thinking of.

O Jesus, come and help me humbly start
to speak to You in our own heart-to-heart.

                          -- by Pete Voelz         8/07