What Your Heart Desires
There is a biblical passage that says “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”. We were watching another Hallmark Christmas movie tonight. Many, have a recurring theme of two people who meet and are attracted to each other. Then the tension in the plot is usually a couple of twists. One is that they both have something in their past and they keep it a secret from each other. Another theme is that one is either famous or wealthy and driven while the other is in a small town with old fashioned values. The successful person usually needs to learn balance in their life by stopping and smelling the roses. The more rural person often gets to have a breakthrough in risking and doing what they love.
Those concepts are probably alive in most of us. Many of us get into creating a career and making money and miss out on the humanity of hearth and home. Then a whole lot of us never realize our dreams because it is too risky and we don’t want to fail. It might be time for us to take stock and decide “where our treasure is”. I don’t necessarily mean physically, but what truly gives us joy and our life purpose and deep satisfaction. I have often said to folks that I am privileged to counsel “Follow your heart”! Perhaps the biblical aphorism could be said in reverse “For where your heart is, there will be your treasure also”.
Make a list of the things in your life that you truly love. They can be anything;
People, places, plants, pets, events, hobbies or whatever. Then visualize if money were no object what would you do for the rest of your life? With whom would you do it? Where would you do it? And finally when will you do it? If you are already doing what you love with whom you love, where you love then congratulations! You are in a distinct minority of folks on our planet. If there is anything missing from your life experience right now, I urge you to follow your heart. When you do, Universe will do everything in it’s power to give you what your heart desires. From my encouraging heart to yours, Thomas