Your Heart is Central

Why do we get emotional?

I was having an MSN chat with my friend last week about this; but I thought it be good for me to share about this.

But really, we get emotional because there is an emptiness in our hearts.

We are not known.

The nights in the parties where suddenly you feel lonely and just want to be away from everyone. Or sometimes when we get too busy and we suddenly just wonder what we’re doing everything for. Or maybe you might just be lying in your bed, where the voices in your heart slowly creep in, “What am I living for?”

Ironically, that is our salvation. The voices of our heart; the emptiness that we’re feeling give us a huge clue: we’re not living the life we’re meant to live. We’re not living from our true self. It tell us we need to do something about our lives!

We yearn to be truly known, but we spend too much time making a false self, making an image about how we think we should be. The thing is, many of us don’t even think that, and that’s only because we’re so used to doing it that we don’t even notice anymore.

Let me quote an excerpt from a book I was just reading:

Think about your work life for a moment. Why are so many people bored or frustrated with their jobs? Why do they dread Monday morning and “thank God it’s Friday”? Their hearts are not in their work. Far from it. However they arrived at what they’re doing with their lives, it wasn’t by listening to their heart. The same holds true for their love life. Why do so many relationships fail? Because one or both partners no longer have a heart for making it work. On and on it goes. Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They’ve lost heart. Why can’t we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can’t get it back.

There is no escaping the centrality of the heart. God knows that. it’s why he made it the central theme of the Bible, just as He placed the physical heart in the center of the human body. The heart is central; to find our lives, we must make it central again.
- Waking the Dead, John Eldredge

Even in this time where we’re dying from mugging and all that, don’t forget to take care of it.

It’s the wellspring of your life. Out of it flows everything. =)