“In the midst of the din and distraction of the lives you are living—with their endless notices, updates, and alerts—there is a sound in the lower register of your hearing, a sound so deep it seems to lie hidden below the endless noise of your world. You don’t listen to that sound because it lies within you, because you are used to taking your cues and charting your course from what you perceive in the outer world.
“That sound is your own heartbeat, the inner metronome that regulates your blood and oxygen, nourishes your body, and calibrates your body with the body of the world.
“When you are born, you take that rhythm from your mother into the outer world and, if all goes well, you remain true to it throughout your days, using the life within you as the touchstone for all of your actions and decisions and in this way literally following your heart and your heart’s desire.
“Each heartbeat is like a stitch in the fabric of the land that binds your body to My body—the Body of All That Is, Has Been, and Is to Come. But how easy it has become to fall out of your own inner rhythm.
“Once that happens, it is impossible to make sense of your world. No amount of thought, innovation, ingenuity, or initiative will restore that vital inner connection which is the basis for all true wisdom.
“It is the heart that makes sense of the journey of your soul and allows you to pass through death and danger, trouble and confusion, and find love and hope and purpose from one lifetime to the next. In praying the rosary you will learn to listen for the sound of your heartbeat and follow its guidance, and claim the eternity that is yours.”