Heart Pocket Word for the Day is Heart!

The word from my heart pocket is Heart.

It has so many meanings!

Love. Love is the most popular connotation associated with the heart. Specifically, romantic love. While romance is a catalyst for movement into marriage and children and songwriting and movies, although it is a favorite association with heart, it is not as deep as some of the other meanings. Our heart's "break" and "ache" when we are disappointed in romantic love. We are sentimental and sympathetic and tender when love is at work with others. Even pity and the hugely powerful compassion is driven by love of self and humanity. We open our hearts with great feeling when the situation calls. Heart is young and raw at these moments and it spends a lot of energy. To deeply love - to have sacrificed and put something before ourselves - to go beyond affection and sentiment and even sensitivity to broader and more deeply forged forces like tenderness and compassion and a response soul-to-soul, comes directly from the heart. This kind of love needs no certificates or lyrics or soaring melodies. It simply exists and responds from that depth every time.

Heart is also meant as courage. A person has spirit, fortitude, guts and purpose. Her heart shows itself by connecting with the mind and the body and acting in the world. Heart drives our passions and when heart is focused, nothing is impossible!  

It is our backbone, our strength of character. It is fundamental and essential to our beingness. Without heart, we are empty and don't function properly. We are cowardly, without resolution and meaning. Without heart, there is no understanding or creativeness. Beauty cannot exist without heart. We have no temperament or inclinations. It is unnatural to be without heart.

And that is the heart of it.

There is a reason we have given the name heart to the centralized organ in our body. It  is hard-working, essential, constant and instinctive. It is intuitive and beats the drum of life almost without our having to think about it. It is natural and flowing and without obstruction, it gives us life. This most relied upon instrument plays our song and when we are in tune, there is nothing more beautiful! We can rely on our heart. Just as we care for the heart inside our body, we must feed and exercise and rest the heart that drives our responses to the world. We must deeply love from our heart of hearts. We begin with ourselves.

Have a heart. Put your heart in it. A person after my own heart. A change of heart. Learn by heart. You have a heart of gold. 

My heart is full. My heart goes out to you. You warm my heart. 

Home is where the heart is.