Mar 28, 2012
Mar 9, 2012
Have heart
I've been amazed at others. I'm always amazed at others and I know that people have their bad days and others do things that are terrible in this world. However, I love people. I love watching and listening to people. More often than not, they reflect similar thoughts, fears and doubts that I have.
I have a friend studying abroad currently and he is starting to realize that the magical powers of being in an foreign country (even with fantastic brewed beer) won't quiet the voices of doubt, frustrations and fear in his head prior to this trip.
"Once I graduate....once I move somewhere else...once I find that one person for me...once I get out of this situation...once I get away from those people...once I grow up." These are the voices that resonant within our minds. Change will happen given a different context. We believe this....more like we are tied to these thoughts like chains.
It's been amazing to reflect on these thoughts. For I too, have contemplated and often questioned my motives for wanting to move to a new city. I must say at first, I wanted to get away in hopes that everything will change, that my problems and frustrations will go away and life will be fresh and green again. These thoughts are child's play and I'm learning to put those kinds of thoughts away. They are lies and false happiness.
I have another friend who is abroad and she is starting to understand what she wants in a romantic relationship. Upon reflecting over her past relationships, she has a better understanding of who she is now; what she wants and doesn't want. Some never get to that point of understanding and then they just stop trying to believe. She wants someone to get her, her deepest fears and human qualities yet still love her.
My friends have arrived at new points of understanding and reflection about themselves. I must say this is best place to start.
I read the other day what "heart" means in the Hebrew language. Heart encompasses the mind, thought, logic, emotion and feeling. It's not just the gushy emotions we rummage through. It's the source of everything and one definition of the pictograph: the heart is a place of "authority within". Life comes from there...how we see, feel, absorb, act, think, communicate, and speak comes from there...the heart, the "authority within".
It's a God given gift to have a heart and do something with it. To know and grasp that so much life is capable from one heart. Like I said, people amaze me and it's a gift to be able to look at life with such wonder and amazement. So no need to continue listening to those terrible, childish voices that say otherwise (1 Corinthians 13:11).
Love,
C
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