Heart Shape

Today I want to put my attention on a matter of the heart. Have you checked yours lately? Besides the fact that it’s still beating… Is it hard or soft … Is it clean or cluttered…Is it happy or sad… Is it empty or full… Is it open, is it broken… Kay Jewelers advertises the Open Heart Collection by saying, “Keep your heart open and love will find its way in.”

Tina Turner boldly asked the question, “What’s love gotta do with it?” In talking with my brother about someone who died after having some heath issues and going through a nasty divorce, he said , “People talk about watching what you eat to stay healthy but we need to watch what’s eating us!” That’s food for thought.

Love contradicts what Forrest Gump’s mother said,“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” When you give everything with a rich filling of love that is what you’ll get in return. That is the matter of the heart.

TIME LINE

It was a moment of pure enlightenment. The phrase that I’ve heard countless times and even carelessly let tumble out of my mouth, suddenly had new meaning. ‘I have time to kill.’ Think about that. Do you really… and why would you? In light of the recent deaths of a family member and friend, I had a rude awakening of how precious time is.



We say things like, there’s not enough time in the day, or the day is dragging but we can’t do one thing to add, take away, slow down or speed up the 1440 minutes in each day. So where do we get the idea that we can kill time.

We adjust our schedules to do things we like or need to do which means on a conscious or subconscious level we have put a price tag on our time. You may say, ‘Oh it’s just an expression." I say words have power. From now on, when I find myself with time on my hands, I will make something of it, share it with someone or treasure the rare opportunity to be still.

There are a lot of things I can say about time, but killing won’t be one of them. Enough said.