21-Day Change Your Heart Challenge Starts Today!

Sacred Heart of Jesus Days 1-4

It’s time! Today is the first day of our 21-Day Change Your Heart Challenge, and I’m so thrilled you’re joining me.

Why change your heart?

Everybody’s heart needs changing. We all need healing, we all need to grow in love. But we are not actually the ones who make the changes. God does it, and we need to be open to the changing. Let’s start with a simple, powerful prayer that I learned years ago, one we can pray any time we are hurt, discouraged, or face a challenge:

“Use this, Lord, to change my heart.”

It’s simple, it’s humble, and it’s a powerhouse prayer for growing in virtue. With these few words, we admit that we need changing, make ourselves vulnerable, and open our hearts to let God do with us what he will. That’s scary stuff. But it’s powerful, too.

So here’s your first, simple assignment.

Throughout the 21 days of this challenge, whenever you face something hard—getting out of bed in the morning when you’re exhausted, holding your tongue in an argument with your husband, dealing with health issues or everyday pains and struggles—pray these words: Use this, Lord, to change my heart.

It's a simple act that can bring about profound change.

This first week, our theme is the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One day at a time, we are focusing on Jesus’ personal, intimate, and passionate love for you. Just you. You don’t have to do anything to earn that love, you don’t have to “hustle,” you don’t have to change who you are before Jesus will love you. He loves you with an unfathomable love right now, just as you are. We are going to focus on accepting that love, one day at a time

Gerardo Juarez Martinez, Cathopic

Daily Challenges

I don’t want to overwhelm you with posts, but I also don’t want us to lose focus, so you’ll get this daily content in small batches like this. Today, we’re sharing the content for the first four days of this challenge.

Here’s what’s included for each day below:

☑️ Theme: a focus point for our meditation

☑️ Lectio Divina: audio file of a 5-minute guided meditation, praying with Scripture, focused on the Sacred Heart of Jesus

☑️ Question: for journaling on your own or discussing right here in the comments

☑️ Action: a simple prompt to put our daily theme into action in your everyday life

☑️ BONUS Live Video: At the end of the 21 days, we’ll have a live Zoom call discussion on Wednesday, August 28 !

Are you ready to do this? Let’s get started!