“And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”
– W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

Forgive me for always stretching secular things to their unintended (or intended) relationship to my own walk. But these words were ones that I had to re-read about 4 times. In doing so, I thought of two things. I thought of Christ knocking on my own heart, and how I’m sure my own heart raced at the thought of the changes it would mean in my life… forever. Then also, how I am sure that as part of the process I thought about what it would mean to not accept Him. Those are thoughts I also need to remember and hold on to as I think of others who have yet to accept Christ. Oh, how their hearts must be racing, and yet they may struggle with grasping what is to be lost and gained.

The second thing Auden’s words made me think of was when the two encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Two parts of the scripture in particular jump out as relating to the words above:
Luke 24:25 – “[Christ] said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!'”
Luke 24:32 – “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Also: Revelation 3:4-5 – “Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.”