How Is Your Heart?
Can we just be honest with each other for a moment?
Things are heavy! Life is heavy!
Most people I speak with are not doing well. We're scared, we're lonely, we're angry, we're exhausted, we're worried, we're overwhelmed, we're grieving - we're just barely hanging on.
How is your heart?
Hiding from ourselves by stuffing it down or lying to ourselves by downplaying our feelings or running from ourselves by busying our lives, will only hurt our hearts further.
So, please - name how your heart is and how you are feeling - journal about it, talk with a trusted friend or family member about it, pray and meditate about it.
Give yourself the opportunity to sit with it - as hard and heavy as that is.
Give yourself the space to cry, to be angry, to feel what needs to be felt.
Allow yourself to acknowledge your pain, discomfort, and sorrow.
I leave you with this prayer from my Lent prayers this year. Know that I am praying for you to experience peace, as you navigate your heart.
