Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. ~Paolo Coelho
A
friend of mine, Mette, had this quote today on her facebook as her
status. It got me thinking back over the years to the times when I'd
done just that... allowed my mind to rule where my heart should, as
well, quite frankly, as vice versa. Neither way works. The
heart and mind should work together rather than override one another,
and each has its own domain regarding what advice to listen to.
As
I sit here typing this, I am trusting God for a number of things, the
newest to add to the list being a replacement phone. Most of the things
on my list are much more personal than that... heart choice things
rather than head choice things, which the phone is. If a phone isn't
charging, there's a problem; if it's about to die because it isn't
charging, that's a bigger one. And at the moment, that's what is
happening.
But what about heart decisions? Things like
relationships and belief systems and priorities; things like our
passions and dreams and what our intuition brings to light... these are
heart decisions, and must be made consulting the mind but decided by the
heart.
The phone thing... is weighed by the heart, but the mind
is who decides. Rationality and responsibility say "you need a phone in
order to communicate with those you need to stay in touch with. You need
it in case of an emergency." The heart says "you need a phone because
you don't wish to be out of touch with loved ones."
What decisions do you make with your HEART?
What decisions do you make with your MIND?
Are your decisions in order?
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