Guard well your heart, for out of it flow all the issues of life.
Everything, all the issues of life, begin in the heart. Yet, we give precious little time to "guarding," or nurturing the heart. We give time and care to the physical; we give time and care to the psyche--the mind and the emotions---but to the "heart," we pay little attention. We are impatient to get on with the affairs of the day, our "things to do," even if what we have to do is to watch tv or to play computer games.
Like Martha, it is so much easier for us to "busy about many things," and then to complain that no one is helping us than it is to "stand still before God in order to walk better with men," in the words of Catherine de Hueck Doherty. We barely feed our spirits but wonder why we are spiritually starving. Sometimes, our bodies have to run down in order for our inner man to emerge. Then we can "be still and know" (experience/ taste/ understand/ wrap our minds and hearts around) God.
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