The Hearts' Place
- Lusu Mwah
- Jan 7, 2025
- 2 min read
Dear Thinker,
The heart is a complex organ, and its concept even more so. It wants, desires, and burns. It hopes, loves, and breaks. Life is the experience of the heart. However long, however short.
Our biological hearts have a specific place in the body, positioned for a particular purpose. What of our conceptual hearts?
I find that I have placed my heart in a billion places in hopes that that was the specific position for a particular purpose. But Alas, it suffocated.
There are things we think will make our hearts beat, but there it goes again, suffocating.
The signs are always there, yet we choose to ignore. There is pressure one feels all around, squeezing, yet we choose to ignore. When ignorance is no longer bliss, we take our afflicted hearts and place them elsewhere. Elsewhere being exactly the same, just a different font.
The cycle repeats itself. We chase one thing, then another, and another, calling it drive or success. But deep down, there is a dying heart, a lonely heart. A heart without a home, a heart without purpose.
Where, then, do our hearts truly belong in order to fulfil their truest potential? Is it with family? If it is, what of those with broken homes? Is it with money? If it is, what of the poor? Is it with our strength and pride? If it is, what of the weak? Is it with social status? If it is, what of those without? Is it with the Free? If it is, what of those who are in captivity?
I think our hearts belong to the same place, a place that allows each of us to reach and fulfil our potential in different ways. A place that does not discriminate based on wealth, capabilities or one's actions. A place abounding in love.
Do you know of such a place?
I think there is such a place but it's with a Who not a where. Also, I think our hearts can rest there with that Person without needing to "reach a potential". Our hearts' potential may only be discovered by resting with the One who knows ourr faults and weaknesses but also sees us for the beautiful and eminently valuable being we are because He values us. Wouldn't you agree? It's easy to wander away from that "place" but fortunately, we don't need ruby slippers to go back home.