Looking Into the Heart

Looking at some of the petunias  in the

hanging baskets around

our place,

I was struck at how

beautiful the colours

at the centre of them are.

No wonder the insects are

inexorably drawn to the 

sweetness at the centre,

in the very heart 

of the flower.

If, as my zentangle yesterday illustrated, 

it's the root from which the branches and the fruit and flowers grow,

then it's surely from the heart,

  that place that has so long been seen as

the centre of our true identity, and essential being,

 that all that we are, and do proceeds.
To paraphraseProverbs 3:27,
"as a man or woman thinks in their heart, so they are." 

Sometimes we may get an unexpected peep at 
the real motives of our hearts which have previously been unknown to us,

and well,

we may not like what we see

too much.

In reality this is when we can be encouraged

for we never see what we aren't ready to deal with,

and can know that
just humbly acknowledging

what we see, 
and wanting something different,

can be the starting point

for that difference to begin.

Christians call this movement towards light, and truth,

and change in the heart,

repentance.

I've also heard it given the lovely Hebrew name  

teshuvah, 

which I believe means "return,"

meaning that we are turning back to God 

so that sin, evil,

and all the things which have the ability

to hide the real "us"

are being changed by
the spark of God 

being renewed in our hearts.

God Bless