Daily Reading
The Life of the Heart
January 5, 2025
The life of the heart is a place of great mystery. Yet we have many expressions to help us express this flame of the human soul. We describe a person without compassion as “heartless,” and we urge him or her to “have a heart.” Our deepest hurts we call “heartaches.” Jilted lovers are “brokenhearted.” Courageous soldiers are “brave- hearted.” The truly evil are “black-hearted” and saints have “hearts of gold.” If we need to speak at the most intimate level, we ask for a “heart-to-heart” talk. “Lighthearted” is how we feel on vacation. And when we love someone as truly as we may, we love “with all our heart.”
But when we lose our passion for life, when a deadness sets in which we cannot seem to shake, we confess, “My heart’s just not in it.” (How much of your heart even feels present these days?)
Brent and I are inviting you on a journey to recover your heart, or the lost places of your heart. Because in the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. For out of this wellspring of our soul flows all true caring and all meaningful work, all real worship and all sacrifice. Our faith, hope, and love issue from this fount as well. Because it is in our heart that we first hear the voice of God, and it is in the heart that we come to know him and learn to live in his love.
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But when we lose our passion for life, when a deadness sets in which we cannot seem to shake, we confess, “My heart’s just not in it.” (How much of your heart even feels present these days?)
Brent and I are inviting you on a journey to recover your heart, or the lost places of your heart. Because in the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. For out of this wellspring of our soul flows all true caring and all meaningful work, all real worship and all sacrifice. Our faith, hope, and love issue from this fount as well. Because it is in our heart that we first hear the voice of God, and it is in the heart that we come to know him and learn to live in his love.
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