Living From Our Hearts
I've grown up learning that my heart was a dangerous place that could not be trusted. The Baptist church that we went to would teach lesson after lesson to elementary kids that our hearts were evil, to be despised as fleshy and untrustworthy. I know there is an aspect of truth to that, but it is not the whole truth. Jesus longs to know our hearts. Out of the heart are the issues of life. We live out of our heart, so if we are constantly fighting it, fighting our feelings and emotions, then our life will be exhausting and confusing. There's a difference between recognizing that one aspect of something is bad, vs taking that to mean the whole thing is bad. But with all the good of the heart comes the bad: the confused, swirling feelings that you don't have words for yet, or even the ones you do have words for but leave you feeling tired and weighed down. These are not to be run away from. These are not to stuff down deep in your heart because if you feel anything other th...