What will you accept and even desire from God for the transformation of your heart? What do you long for God to do to you and in you so that you will walk in newness of life and be freed from the daily temptations of sin and the desires of the flesh?
Last night, my daughter shared this sonnet from John Donne, which expresses a desire for God to batter his heart, overthrow him, and use all the bending force of the Godhead to make him new — so that he is divorced from earthly passions and desires:
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy.
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again;
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor even chaste, except you ravish me.
Words of Grace 
Excellent poem. I read this several years ago and was move greatly by it then and was happy to read it again on your blog. It is quite moving.