The Secrets of the Heart

“There are no walls more impenetrable than those erected within the human heart.  There are no secrets more vanquishing than the ones locked deep within the human heart.  There is no silence as complete as the unspoken words of the heart.  There is no blindness greater than the sightlessness of the heart.  There is no sorrow more grievous that the heart that has been betrayed by one allowed entrance into the depth therein, and there is no fortress more formidable than the broken heart that is afraid to trust and to love again. 

The human heart – more than flesh, more than spirit – it is the center of life physically and emotionally.  The dwelling place of love and joy, the dwelling place of envy and strife.  Cold and uncaring or warm and filled with compassion and love?  Do we not have power over flesh and spirit, do we not have power to shape and mold our heart and the hearts of others? 

The human heart directs our words and actions far more than most see and understand, so desire a heart of goodness and love.  Desire a heart free of the walls and barriers that prevent words from being spoken and actions from being completed.  Desire a heart that sees and a heart that feels even before it sees.  Desire a heart that will forgive, a heart that will trust, a heart that will open the gates unto others so that they might dwell within and make us whole and complete, for hearts joined are greater than hearts that beat alone.”