You clean and organize; you demand perfection – did you ever wonder why?
Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time – and it’s killing them.
And so a man’s heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.
They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
As D. H. Lawrence said, “I am not a mechanism.
Life is a hypocrite if I can’t live The way it moves me!
Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the “experts” prattle on and on.
This is the time for a young man to stop saying, “Why is life so hard?” He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.
We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, ‘My heart is deceitfully wicked.’ No, it’s not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished – a life without heart is not worth living.
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
We are not inviting – we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.