Love Your Heart

When my precocious brother was 5 years old, he asked my mom “what do people do for Valentine’s Day?” as he was aware of this holiday by way of Kindergarten chatter. My mom explained that on this holiday we send cards to those we love with pictures of hearts. Getting out his trusty box of 24 Crayola crayons and craft paper, he drew an elaborate and anatomically correct, medical book 3-D replica of a human heart (valves, ventricles, atriums, veins and all). Whether this is your literal imagery in identifying to your own heart or rather the symbolic cutesy sketch by way of two parallel rounded, cheeky styled curves that connect downward to an inward single point...

Our heart is our home.

It is our sanctuary to feel, connect, interpret and engage to the significance of ourselves and our meaning embedding to the world around us.

Our beating heart is not only essential but also affirms, by resonance, to the rhythms and pulses of how we function. The electrical circuits that stem and return to this essential organ additionally message within us reception to our inherent feelings and emotions. Our heart is our central powerhouse to our personal energy system. It offers us a reservoir to hold, interpret, and comprehend our vibrancy to life. No doubt, by structure, it is our hardest working muscle!

Relating to ourselves travels the heart’s windy corridors of inward connection. Our heart space can be a clearing pool of crystallized, perceptive reflection but it can also propose a murky, uncertain opaqueness. In both offerings our heart can be more of a sponge as it FEELS by absorption as our minds decipher the conscious and the body reverberates all, playing in concert. The healthiness of our heart relies on the symbiosis of all parts of ourselves funneled in communication to our own truth, knowing and God’s well appointed light.

For some, during these real and challenging times, our hearts can wear masks (similar to our own face coverings of today) to protect and shield, holding static and still, bracing the invisible feeling force. Perhaps, spending time in quiet retreat can remove/unveil what might be a barrier for the heart in its deep dive of bonding with wholeness of self. Allowing our heart’s epicenter to ‘shelter in place’ - without judgement or disregard – is how we touch all that intangibly needs to be felt by dimension of trust. Partnering alongside understanding and wisdom, delivers a thin clearing in the most supportive and honoring of ways.

Nurturing one’s complete and complicated heart, cultivates the heart’s garden the capacity to grow and bloom in thoughtful, all important care and presence.

This is one’s beating for gratitude to fill…

This is one’s pumping for compassion to flow…

This is one’s suppling for Grace to stream…

This is you, loving your HEART and in return loving YOU by elaborate and authentic design.