Some say the heart is foolish... some warn that following your heart can be dangerous. My God says that if I delight myself in Him that He will give me the desires of my heart.. and to trust Him with all my heart. When I was young I asked Jesus to live in my heart. My heart has hurt.. and ached. My heart has loved. It has been healed and restored. My heart has raced with excitement, and beat wildly with nervousness. My heart has skipped a beat.. I’m sure of it. This heart of mine is full of desires and passion. You can give your heart? It can be said that you have no heart.. or a lot of heart?
A sappy song. People falling in love. That patriotic feeling that fills the air at a ball game as the national anthem rings. A little brother who puts his heart into everything. Those purple heart strories. happily ever after. I'm a sucker for all that.
A life without a heart would be no life at all. I dont mean that you would be dead, due to the lack of that vital organ to pump blood through your veins, but who wants to live without a feeling heart? The heart that God captures and speaks to? My mom has always been a great example of someone who lives from her heart, and she has always encouraged us kids to do so. I thank her for that. As a little girl, I was a happy little dreamer. My world was full of wonder and adventure. I was going to grow up to be a princess. Not the boring kind of princess who sits in a castle wearing a ruffled dress and sparkly shoes, mind you. I was going to be the princess who fought for love, made it through the fire swamp, and helped prince charming slay dragons... with the ruffled dress and sparkly shoes! Now I am older and more mature. I work, go to school, pay bills.. I do grown up things. The passionate, dreaming heart? That has not changed much. What was my chemistry lecture about on Monday? I have no idea. I was too busy day dreaming... and possibly sleep dreaming too.
This is when my dad would say, "Can you just get to the point? This is too long.. your losing me."
I want to live from my heart. Fully and passionately. I want to love unconditionally and be loved completely and ardently in return. I want Gods love to shine brightly through me. Adventure? Travel? Yes please! and you know what? God says yes. I love that Steven Curtis Chapman song with lines like..
Let's follow our leader into the glorious unknown
This is a life like no other - this is The Great Adventure
..And discover all the new horizons just waiting to be explored...
...This is what we were created for
...This is the greatest journey that the human heart will ever see...
...The love of God will take us far beyond our wildest dreams
I'm no bible scholar, and I am definitely not an example of a perfect Christian. Not at all! I do not have it all figured out. Most days I feel like I don’t have anything figured out, but I know Gods love is real. One of my recent goals is to be positive and to live in the now. School is mostly awful; I'm not a huge fan of work. Most mornings I have to drag myself out of bed with the reminder that I can get back in at the end of the day. That’s when I ask God if this is some kind of sick joke.. by "this is what you were created for" you surely did not mean THIS!? haha. I am learning to accept the fact that this is part of my adventure. Fire swamp? maybe.
P.S. I am a fan of John Eldredge. I first read Wild at Heart. Loved it. Even if you’re a girl.. worth reading!
“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot out dream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope. ”
― John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God”
― John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of
“And after years of hearing the heart-cry of women, I am convinced beyond a doubt of this: God wants to be loved. He wants to be a priority to someone. How could we have missed this? From cover to cover, from beginning to end, the cry of God's heart is, "Why won't you choose Me?" It is amazing to me how humble, how vulnerable God is on this point. "You will . . . find me," says the Lord, "when you seek me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). In other words, "Look for me, pursue me -- I want you to pursue me." Amazing. As Tozer says, "God waits to be wanted.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“A mans calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart
“Whatever form each of our own intimate adventures has taken in our fantasies, or in "real life," this Sacred Romance is set within all our hearts and will not go away. It is the core of our spiritual journey. Any religion that ignores it survives only as a guilt induced legalism, a set of propositions to be memorized and rules to be obeyed.
Someone or something has romances us from the beginning with creek-side singers and pastel sunsets, with the austere majesty of snowcapped mountains and the poignant flames of autumn colors telling us of something - or someone - leaving with a promise to return. These things can, in an unguarded moment, bring us to our knees with longing for this something or someone who is lost; someone or something only our heart recognizes.”
― John Eldredge
