How Your Heart Speaks To You

You are the representation of your heart. How you speak. React. What you believe. Criticize. Praise. Hate. Love. All comes from the heart of your soul and developed in layers through experience.

This week’s blog, I delve into the subtleties of the heart. Your heart. And the importance of protecting your heart with choices.

I don’t know about you, but I easily lose patience when I’m waiting in line to pay for groceries, at the bank, or getting my favourite latte, especially, if the people in front of me are chatting and I’m in a hurry.

This week’s blog focuses on how patience is attached to expectations and how God wants to move in your life.

When I was in my early twenties, I found myself in a place I never thought I’d be. I always dreamed of being rich and famous. In fact, my first goal was to be a famous photographer and driving a Porsche by the time I turned 25. It was a wonderful dream.

Instead, at the age of 24, I became pregnant. An event in my life I truly wanted to avoid. In fact, I was proud of myself for being careful so when I heard the results from my doctor, I felt as if my body betrayed me. More so because I knew I wasn’t cut out to be a mother.

Parenting is filled with variables, challenges, and questioning our motives. This week’s blog digs deeper to a spiritual comparison of parenting and the measurement of God’s love for you.

Do you ever wish life could flow like a river, as it moves towards its fixed purpose. A life with no pain, worries, or fear.

Have you ever thought—why can’t life be easy? Why does it have to be so hard?

In truth, without experiencing the tumbled broken days, you’d never know a compassionate or grieving heart, learn forgiveness, or embrace peace.

What Causes Your Heart to Skip a beat?

There are many occasions that can cause your heart to skip a beat—being heads over heels in love, getting engaged, holding a newborn in your arms, seeing friends and loved ones you haven’t seen in years, or a new job. But the question to ponder is what occupies your heart that takes you away from the creator.

Once upon a time, I wasn’t a morning person.

In fact, I used to place my alarm on my dresser located at the back of my bedroom, so I had to physically get out of bed to hit the snooze button. I’d do this ten times. Get up, turn it off, and go back to bed. I know, crazy right! But when you’re not a morning person, you literally need a train whistle beside your ear to wake up.

Now imagine this scenario when you forget to set your alarm.

Do you have false beliefs roaming through your head like...

Nothing ever works for me.

I try but nothing comes my way.

Everyone has open doors of opportunities but not me.

I’m not good enough.

I’m too old.

I don’t deserve it.

What we think starts from our head to our heart, then to our hands. Hands that hold your dreams—pen to paper, paint brush to canvass, fingertips to guitar strings, whatever passion you hold in your heart.

We do our best to navigate through the troubles of the world, but these problems can distract and derail your intentions for a life of peace, joy, and happiness. A motto I strived towards as a new ager, asking the universe to intervene, relying on methodologies that provided joy and peace, but this peace wasn’t blessed by God.

It's in times of desperation, you can be led astray. My advice, be aware of your choices and ask if it fills your soul with permanent peace.

I’ve been reading this book titled “When a Woman Overcomes Life’s Hurts’ by Cindi McMenamin. In the first chapter, she lays out an exercise to review past hurts and how these events can have a positive impact on your life.

It was a beautiful revelation. The exercise tugs at your heart strings as you reflect pivotal moments where tears were spilt from a broken heart. But the process also shows healing from these events.

I don’t know about you, but I like things to be in order. This idiosyncrasy shines when I’m moving items around in a room, or hanging a picture, everything needs to be balanced. I admit, I’m the person who says, move the picture a little to the right, or it needs to be hung an inch higher.

Everyone has intentions to be perfect., but is it necessary.

In our world today, freedom has been an overwhelming stand for our rights, as leaders globally attempt to cripple resources we need to survive. In Europe, the incredible unity of farmers where they grid locked entry ways into cities and received victory for their efforts. An amazing triumph of people standing together for their livelihood.

However, global conflict exists, and the word ‘freedom’ is on the lips of many. Freedom from tyranny, government overreach, and darkness that overrides good intentions.

I journal off and on, and do it, mostly, to release stress and anxiety. How about you?

Journaling is an excellent way to release emotions and show gratitude for all you have in your life.

To review past entries, is an encouraging way to see how your life has changed. As I read entries back to May of 2023, I was amazed at the changes in my life.

Today’s blog is about healing, trust, and faith. How God continuously molds you to be the best you can be.

God was speaking to me through these words, acknowledging my need to tear, and allow my heart to mend.

Seasons in time are designed to gain wisdom, nurture a broken heart, embrace joy, or celebrate God’s miracles.

Do you remember as a kid the phrase:

“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.”

I remember feeling empowered when I confronted bullies in school with these words. It made me feel strong, confident, and unbreakable. Yet, words hurt.

Many people have succeeded in rising above challenges in life through sheer will power and determination to never give up. This leads to the belief you can conquer challenges in your life on your own. But for some, it’s not that simple.

Many people make new year’s resolutions. Some succeed in their endeavours, while others fail. In truth, how our lives unfold is unpredictable. You can implement changes that improve your health, spiritual growth, business endeavors, work ethics and goal setting, which can be done easily if you’re willing to make it happen. However, as you embark on this new year, be open to the unexpected. You never know how your life can change.

Do you ever think, “what’s the world coming to?”

When you think of all the natural disasters, wars, political corruption, terrorists, I’m sure you’ve asked the question, “what’s happening in our world?”

I’ve asked both these questions many times, shake my head, and then continue my day, desensitized from daily stories in the media.

However, my perspective has since changed and is more aligned with ‘what happens in our world when you live without God.”

Dear Heavenly Father,

How my heart weeps for you. You created the earth and all living creatures. You created man to love and cherish. Yet, we dishonor you.

I feel the tears you mourned as you heard the life blood cries of Able vanquish into the earth. How your heart overflowed with grief when you saw the evil in the hearts of man, and with a grievous heart, wiped the earth clean to begin anew. The rains came, tears of sadness ending all you had created. My heart weeps for you, my Almighty God.

In the well-known story of beauty and the beast, the beast must find someone to love him before the last rose petal falls. His curse, a result of his cruel and selfish nature from the environment he was raised in, spoiled, and a want and care for no one.

It’s sad to think there are people like this, moulded from their home and social environment, unaware how to live with a compassionate heart. In this scenario, the rose would lose its petal.

I planted seeds of resentment and bitterness at a life I wish I could do over. To make different decisions, as what I wanted to avoid was end up with no financial security and, I failed.

This reality pierced my heart as how can God love me when my life is a messy pool of pain, hopelessness, and feelings of rejection.