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Tonight I’m all about black coffee, as I awoke about 12:30 in the afternoon today and our AC is frozen up. So at the moment I am hot and sleepy and my left eye won’t stop twitching.

On a different note, reflect on this: the Greek root of “to believe” means “to give one’s heart to”. That sure puts a different connotation in the mind with regards to words like “belief”, “religion” and “faith”. To believe is not like joining a political party or taking a pledge, its about the heart, and more specifically, the giving of the heart over to what it is, or WHO, the belief is in.

The tricky thing is that I give my heart over to all sorts of things. In the last week I have given my heart to: money (or lack thereof), my home, the idea of acceptance, new clothes, my son, my husband, my writing, my TV shows, and the list continues. See, just because I wasn’t giving my heart to Jesus doesn’t mean my heart wasn’t being given. That’s impossible. Even if you aren’t giving your heart outwardly to others or to God, you are in reality just devoting your heart to yourself - your career, your car, your looks, whatever it might be.

So how do I give my heart to God? How do I continue to place my desires, my devotion, my fears and limitations, and my genuine belief in His hands? It could quite possibly be as simple as talking to Him about it. Novel idea, huh?

So with that, I need to say farewell, because this mama needs some time to give her heart away to the right Thing before getting to “work” for the night, black coffee in tow.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 9:33 pm and is filed under Coffee, Current Events, Faith 'Flections