Comforter, when my heart begins to harden, when self-absorption consumes my thoughts, when I do not see people as dearly beloved, please be my Tenderizer. You scrape away all the charred remains of pride and self-centeredness. You melt away all the cold remains of apathy. You cut away all the dull callouses that would block my ears, bind my hands and blind my eyes. My heart and soul are prone to stoniness. I need You to tenderize my heart to feel once again. I need Your Holy Spirit to break my heart and bring me to tears once again. You hung on that cross to set me free. Help me, dear Father, to connect to the depths that You went to reach me in my depravity. I want to weep over the things that make You weep. I want my heart to break over the things that break your heart. Strengthen me in these times to stay tender to You and not to harden my heart towards others in Jesus’ mighty name AMEN

Ezekiel 11:19 Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 25:4 Show me Your ways, O LORD;Teach me Your paths.
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly.
Luke 19:41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it