Understanding The Heart

There are many things in life that I do not understand. I don't understand love. I don't understand the friends I have in my life. I don't understand math. I don't understand why I can never seem to get my act together, and be disceplined in my life. And I don't understand the yearnings (sp?) in my heart. There are so many things that my heart desires. To be the best possible daughter, friend, and listener. To one day stand before my friends and family, and get married. To have children of my own. To feel amazing about my self. And to be the person that God created me to be. Lots of other things as well.

I didn't understand why I had all these things inside of me. Why I had the unique name out of all my friends in school. Why I was abnormally tall. Why I was so good at sports. Or why, for some reason, everyone remembers me. I always thought that I was crazy for wanting some of those things. That some of them would never happen. And I realized that those things are there for a reason. They were put there by God. The craziest part is that they are promises from God. Promises to be great. Great in the things that He has given me. And that I am destined for. The heart is a crazy thing. Not many of us sit to pay attention to it. A fragile, delicate part of us. That has the ability to show people amazing things. And the ability to be crushed, so easily. Our heart is truly how we communicate. If we have a stone cold heart, than we, ourselves are cold, with no love. I communicate with people in my life based on the love I have for them in my heart. At the same time, the power the heart holds is incredible. Jesus said " I stand at the door and knock". The door of our heart. We have the power to open that door. We have the power to show people love, to bless them, to speak words of affirmation. Everyones heart is different, and yet, we were created for the same purpose. Love.

Read 1 Corinthians 13. Don't just read it. Absorb it into your soul. Into your heart. We were put on this earth to love (among other things.) Our greatest gift is love. " All for love a Father gave, for only love can make a way. All for love the heavens cried, for love was crucified."