If your heart is a volcano
How shall you expect flowers to bloom in your hands?
Kahlil
Gibran, Sand and Foam
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what is going on
down there
in our deepest self
in that place that defines who we are?
call it your soul
your heart
it does not matter
we all have that deep place
that is our true self
and it is this self
that gets revealed at the most inopportune times
it is this self that suddenly emerges when we are
stressed
when life is difficult
when we are tired
or hangry
no matter how skilled we are at creating masks
and creating a dissembling narrative
no matter how adept we are at avoiding the truth
whatever it is that is going on in that deep place
will out
as Jesus warned us
by our fruits we shall be known
if we want to know what is really going on
there
down deep
all we have to do is look at what our lives produce
because eventually, the truth will out
it matter not if we are talking about nations
or political parties
or Presidents
or just individual people
eventually the “heart” will reveal itself
when we look at our own “fruits”
what do we see?
anger?
Bitterness?
Greed?
Compassion?
Humility?
do we see people built up
or people torn down?
do we see generosity
or a tendency to amass?
do we see kindness
or do we see cruelty?
are we surrounded by joy
or by despair?
as I walk into this new day
the early morning lit by God’s glory
my prayer must be this
“create in me a clean heart O Lord”
for it is from the heart that I live
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