Where Is Your Heart?

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

YOU are there, and I am here
In the same place, at the same time
Still…the only, one thing, that keeps me with YOU, and from YOU
Is resting 60 to 100 beats per minute 
In a chambered cell; holding…pulsing…and sometimes skipping…
Where arteries and veins are fastened
Where good and evil are at war…
Where is your heart?

Anatomy does not quite tell the whole story
Of this remarkable and vital force
At least the size of a fist; as many as two
Directly connected to “fight or flight” responses
And spiritual matters behind the massive curtain
Where life reflects, and plans evolve
Where speaketh the mouth, accordingly…
Where is your heart?

Its fleshy composition hardly reveals 
The true objective of its nature
And essence of its character that relates
To love and fear and pleasure and hate
For Life and death and Order and destruction
Where fragments of brokenness repose 
Where contrition and forgiveness are born and die
Where is your heart?

Some are found in dull, damp, deceitful ditches
Despising the Mark of the Higher Calling
While others discover discerning docks
Diving Deep toward The Voice
Echoing from the Heart of The SPIRIT
Where Deep Calls out and water bends
Where Truth is found in river branches
There is my heart.

I rest mine in that Place of Humility
Positioned like a child far from pride and anxiety
Postured before Thy hidden WORD in me
Like a seal blazing, ignited unfailingly
Open to every True Possibility
There YOUR Statues are my Heritage forever
There the Fullness of YOUR Joy is my Strength
There is my heart.

Oh Treasure that I seek and long for
In The KINGDOM of my Father’s Thoughts and Intentions
Mine is stored and carried day by day
Kept securely, covered and bonded
In the chariot of quantum solace
There it will stay for all eternity
There moths nor rust could never destroy
There is my heart.

No claim to it will mammon ever have
And monday dare not render attack
For it beats steady, strong, and stalwart
Growing in the model of Grace and Truth
In The Salvation of my Faithful Fortress
Where HE alone will Deliver me
Where the place prepared is around HIS Table
Where is your heart?

“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.”