Delicate, fragile and wonderful

Your heart is soft, delicate and fragile. But it is also wonderful and capable of feeling so many awesome things. Imagine your heart is like a sponge. The reason a sponge can work is because it is soft. Because it is soft, it can absorb things. Also, because a sponge is soft, you can squeeze it and out comes whatever was absorbed. Just like a heart! A heart must be soft so that it can absorb love. It also must be soft so that it can be squeezed, like from a big hug, and the love can be given away.

Have you ever tried to wipe something up with a completely dry sponge? It doesn’t work very well and can’t absorb or be squeezed out. It only works when it is a little moist. Too many times, our hearts are hurt and become dried up and cannot absorb or give away love. When we learn how to take care of our hearts, we can keep them from drying up and causing us to live with no joy, hope, happiness or hunger to live life to the fullest. My hope is that we can learn how to live our lives in such a way that our hearts do what they are supposed to do. Wounded Heart pp. 29-30

I have one more example of what a heart is like. Your heart is like a beautiful crystal, finely cut, thin vase. Even if you’re a 6-foot, 3-inch middle linebacker, that describes your heart! Back to the vase: It is finely crafted, has great detail and is very valuable. Now if I took that vase and slammed it on the ground, what would happen? It would break into a million pieces. So we should just make sturdier vases, right?

Imagine this. My wife’s favorite flowers are tulips. When I buy my wife flowers, I will usually get her a dozen tulips. Just imagine if I was afraid of putting them inside a beautiful, fragile vase because I was afraid it would break. What if instead, on my way home, I pulled over to the side of the road and picked up a dirty, ugly rock, chipped a hole in it for the flowers, threw it in the back of my pickup truck and brought it home. On the way, I think about my new boulder vase with great pride. It will never break, we can have it forever and my wife will love it! Imagine that I walk into the house with those beautiful flowers in that dirty, old, ugly rock that I decided to turn into a vase. I’ve never tried it, but I don’t think that my wife would appreciate my creativity and everlasting vase. Wounded Heart pp. 30-31

The reality is for our hearts to be beautiful, they must be breakable.

This ends our introduction of Wounded Heart. We are now ready to get into some very practical keys to overcoming life's pain and disappointments. Remember that your heart is beautiful and so are you!!!

Tune in soon as we get ready for Key #1 Learn What True Love Is...