Cold and Brittle

It's been super cold in this part of the world the last while. Well below freezing temperatures. Something I've always know but have observed again is, the colder things get, the more brittle they get and are susceptible to breaking and cracking.

Where this applies more than anything else is in our hearts.

I've seen and have had to personally fight against the heart getting cold.

A cold heart is brittle and susceptible to breaking easier. A warm heart is an open one and for sure that can cause your heart to be broken. However, a warm heart can mend somewhat and somehow. A cold heart doesn't mend as easy.

The older I get the more I realize the importance of your heart, and less so the physical one (although that is obviously critical). We generally take good care of our outer selves, but often times our inside persons are not well tended too. Inside were often a whole lot more broken then the outside self shows.

If we could tend to the inside person as much or hopefully more than the outside one, we would be a whole lot more healthy.

It is important to spend more time working on our inside health, mentally and emotionally and check our hearts constantly. The world tends to build heart callouses and turn us cynical. It's an unfortunate part of nature. But if we tend to our hearts and emotions, we can still be warm, loving, positive and giving people.

Stay warm in your heart. Hurts will come, it's guaranteed. But a warm heart recovers better than a cold one from the guaranteed hurts.