When the Heart Unfolds

Inspired by Proverbs 23:26 “My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.”

My child,
there is a chamber within you
where the world rarely enters—
a quiet, pulsing center
that carries your sorrows,
your secrets,
your unnamed longings.

Give Me your heart.
Set it in My hands
like a lantern without flame,
and let Me breathe
My breath into its glass.

I will trace My ways
along its inner walls—
not with thunder,
but with the slow, steady light
that turns stone into softness
and fear into direction.

Watch how I move:
how streams rise in barren places,
how broken wings remember flight,
how the overlooked are gathered
and called My own.

If you give Me your heart,
you won’t disappear—
you will unfold.
Your pulse will find
a rhythm older than your worry,
and your steps
will discover a path
you did not know you were longing for.

For I do not take to diminish,
but to restore,
to shape you quietly
into the one
I always saw.

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