I'm sure you've all heard the saying ,"follow your heart" from time to time again. Its one that I have recently taken to heart myself. Being the strictly realistic person I am, I used to change it around and say to follow your heart but listen to your mind. Basically if what my heart wanted wasn't realistic then I'd shut it down. Recently I've learned a very important lesson, which is to fully follow your heart. Your mind will change and it will grow with your life, but your heart, that stays constant. No matter how complicated or unrealistic it might be, follow the path of your heart. I know I learned the hard way on that. You see when you neglect your heart, then its like theirs this hole that nothing seems to fill, nothing except what your heart want in the first place. The versatility of this lesson honestly amazes me, it could be a relationship, a job, or any goal you have. Follow your heart and trust yourself, push and work hard towards whatever it may be in order to accomplish it, and don't give up, by following through you will have no regrets but instead only accomplishment and joy in the end. No matter what your goal or circumstance may be for this lesson and time of evaluation, let me say one more thing. Whatever you do, do it whole heatedly because if you don't feel something for what your doing or if its a relationship, then who your with, then theirs no point. Strive for what or who fills your heart and set your heart free on this journey of life, no longer caged by realistic properties or complications. See then how your outlook on life may change.
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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