What if we're all wrong though?

[Strongbad]

@mem- God isn't a happy vending machine. If your life is shitty, it's not because God's shitting on you, it's because you stepped in dog shit. Clean it off yourself get your life straight. How do I get God to guide me? If you can take a second away from your selfish wants, allow for the possibility that God can and will be a force that exists in your life, and soften your heart to God you might hear him knocking and then you just have to open the door [/end requested preaching]

I can remain silent no longer. I have heard christians use this term so many times that it is beginning to make me ill. How exactly does one “soften” ones “heart” to god? Is there some form of meditation that actually makes the heart (the muscle in your chest that pumps blood through your body) become soft, and when it softens, god can enter it? And then, when your heart is soft enough, does that give your ears some extra power to hear things (like knocking sounds) that they otherwise would not? Or is this actually a euphemism for letting your brain accept the delusion that god is real?