Jesus, behold, I give you my heart.
If my desires aren’t in harmony with yours,
then please change them according to your wisdom and love.

Dear Jesus,
you know that by myself, I’m too weak to change my desires,
but you can do it.
Jesus, I trust you to do it.
Jesus, I thank you in advance for doing it.

Amen. 

Commentary and Excerpts from the Book of Fr Michael Gaitley:

“Consoling the Heart of Jesus” 

Today, we are invited to focus on our attachments, so as to refine and purify our intentions. Fr. Michael reminds us of the importance of remember the “first things first” or the primacy of contemplation, as one of the ways in which we deal with our attachments. “…The primacy of contemplation means that if we stay fixed on the goodness and glory of the Lord, we’ll begin to have an attitude of indifference without having to force it” (88).

“It may happen that we don’t go to the Lord because we have attachments and are afraid he’ll make us get rid of them” (88). What is that thing that we think we cannot live without? If that one thing we are afraid of losing prevents us from coming closer to the Lord, it is probably one of our biggest attachments. “Jesus simply wants us to go to him… Go to Jesus as you are… Jesus loves sincerity, that he loves it when we’re completely open with him… The more open we are with him, the more deeply he can heal us – and this especially applies to his being able to heal us of our attachments” and present spiritual conditions (88).

“The Lord is so gentle and wise in leading us. The steps he’ll ask us to take toward holiness will be steps that are appropriate to little souls – “little steps”… One of the ways the Lord makes our progress relatively easy is by beginning to detach our hearts from something well before he asks it of us. He usually does this without us realizing it…” (90).

“When we go to Jesus, especially to his Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, he fills us with his love and peace, and at the same time, in his great mercy, he silently loosens our grip on our attachments. After some time, without us realizing it, he holds what he’s just pulled out of our mouths… The moral, of course, is to trust in the Lord, to go to him. He’ll help us become detached, and it’ll happen with a certain ease… Yes, trust in the Lord. Go to him as you are with all your attachments, and don’t worry.” (91)