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The Incredible Heart 

 

Just think about this amazing creation. Not only is it the center of our body, constantly beating to keep us alive, but it is also the center of our emotions.

This month I want to share with you this really cool revelation I had one day while watching an exercise show on flexibility.

Proverbs 4:23 NIV
 Above all else, guard your heart,
       for everything you do flows from it.

Ok, I'll admit it right off the bat. I'm a heart person! You know the kind who always leads with the heart... not the head? I know, those of you who know me are really surprised right? NOT!!!
Heart people  filter life through their hearts .We're just out there, hiding nothing, wearing our emotions on our shoulders, laughing and crying all at the same time... a little ditzy maybe.

Now, I am an avid watcher of workout programs. I love to watch and critique the form and learn new moves for my clients and myself.

One day the instructor was talking about opening up the heart area. Sometime just look at the posture of people. So many of us, especially as we age start to round our shoulders and begin to hunch over.
I have noticed this happening to me and have been working really hard to open my heart or chest area up and to pull my shoulders back.

BUT, when I was watching this day, all of a sudden it just dawned on me about the spiritual application that goes with this!!!
When we try to protect our hearts, we pull our shoulders forward and curl in.

 Sometimes I don't even think we are aware of it. But we do and pretty soon, it starts throwing our spine off and we can get into real structural problems. We get locked up, we lose our flexibility, our heart area closes up, we can't  breathe right,  we become stiff and unyielding.

WOW!!! Catch this...
 NOT ONLY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO OUR BODY'S BUT IT HAPPENS TO OUR HEART TOO!!!!!

One problem heart people have is that sometimes it takes the head a long time to follow, and during that period of time we can get ourselves into a lot of trouble. Our hearts are easily broken and hurt.
 

 

This happened to me. My husband of 19 years passed away 8 years ago. It was the most gut wrenching, devastating, heart crushing experience I have gone through. I literally felt like half of me was cut off. I wanted to curl into a little ball and hold my stomach to protect and comfort myself.
Yes, over time the wound begins to heal, but any little bump, nick or scrape opens up the heart wound again and the pain surfaces once more.
Several years later, I started to give my heart to another, but only to find it trampled on again.

At this point in my life, God led me to an incredible Crossroads School at the YWAM Base in Chico, Ca.

The verse listed above was spoken over me many times during that incredible time in my life where God began to guide me deeper into Him as He gently began healing my heart and life.

My heart got stronger and I was ready to trust God fully again, or so I thought.
But I have never known how to protect my heart, so I put a wall up around it because I wasn't willing to let it get hurt again.

But God is the one who wants to put that wall up. He is our Father, our Daddy, and it's his job to protect our heart.

Over the past 1 ½ years, I've seen my Dad gently and tenderly start removing the bricks in my wall, so I could learn to trust Him to protect me.

As long as I leave my heart in His hands, He will gently hold it, nurture it, stretch and grow it so I can hold more and more of what He has to fill it with! As we stretch the body, our loving Dad stretches the heart.