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What’s in your heart…You will find/get more of it

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 KJV

The human heart is the most complex and highly efficient pump known to man. It is not just good for pumping it is also a storehouse of secrets, feelings and the list goes on.  The Bible of full of heart related verses. Here are a few:

Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” A lot can be added here. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Matthew 15:19 KJV. Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Those who guard their hearts from all the evil out there and also within have a great reward awaiting them. One way to assure oneself of this wonderful promise is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30:   Furthermore, to love your neighbor as you love yourself. I could continue but let me switch back to my topic.

I have found it true to say that what is in your heart is also what comes out of your mouth. “From the abundance to the heart the mouth speaks Luke 6:45.” In addition, what is in your heart, you find more of it. If it is love, you find more love. If it is bitterness, you will find more things to be bitter about. If it is hatred, more hate comes to you. If it is evil, bad things are attracted to you, if it is fear, you are stuck in a cocoon refusing to hatch! If it is generosity, more good things come to you as you also give. If God is in your heart, the universe is attracted to your charisma.

I think my heart is full of love…and strangely, I have found a lot of unique shaped objects of love (heart) include a sculpture of the word love. See images. To sum up, my time in this beautiful world is limited…why fill your heart with rubbish, fretting likes and worry? My prayer is simple, Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me” and “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23:  AMEN.

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KINDNESS _ Revisited

Pay it Forward…Happy Valentine

 

I had posted this back in 2019…but a recent encounter with a cordial connection on Linkedin resurrected it. I have made a few retouches but the message is ripe. Recent incidences in our wonderful world reveal a deep divide between one human and another. It is sad, just how quickly humans forgets that titles are just titles…bottom line, we are human beings and we should treat each other as thus…

It’s at a time when a little kindness can go a long way. In addition, Valentine is around the corner. The Gospel charges us to ‘Invite those who cannot invite us back…least they repay you…’LK 14:12-13. Furthermore, Christ charges us to be humble, LK 14:11 and that when we give, it needs be a secret between us and God. ‘So that your giving maybe in secret…’ Mathew 6:4. Thus said, it is out of humility I write the following hoping to fire up my readers to action.

A few weeks back I went to go pick up my daughter from soccer practice. Since she could not play soccer, she took the position of Team Manager. I could not get a hold of her, and as I waited, one of her teacher’s showed up with a car load of ‘back to school night’ groceries. Her car was overloaded, literary.

On noticing she could use a hand, I went over and helped her unload the goodies and load them on a hand trolley. Certainly, I bet she could have managed on her own, but with a little help, we were done in a breeze. The smile on her face said it all. She was so grateful. I did not think more about it. To me, I did what any person ‘should’ have done in such a situation?

Long and behold, a few days later I got a postal mail. In it, was a beautiful medallion (see picture). I was so moved. I could not imagine or even expect that my innocent actions were that meaningful to her. Either way, her gratitude added an extra spark to ‘pay it forward.’ More so, I have to pass the Kindness Token to someone else.

Do you know someone who deserves one of this KINDNESS TOKEN medallions? Valentine is in a few days.  Cheer someone up…Spread the love…but remember, love yourself first for you cannot give that which you don’t have!

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2023 – Spread the Love

If nature gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I had left a storage tub outside and it filled up with rain water. The sub-zero temperatures over the Christmas season turned the water into a solid block of ice. Well, I have always wanted to make an ice sculpture. I took a large kitchen knife and curved away the excess ice leaving behind a heart shaped ice sculpture. To finished it off, I sprayed it red…and the final piece…see above. Spread the love!

For 2023; Spread the Love. Whatever, nature throws at you, see the positive side of it and make good with it! Did you realize (2+0+2+3 = 7 – the perfect 7). May God bless the works of your hands especially those done for His greater Glory.