Head or Heart

We talk about them all the time --- the head and the heart.

As a rule of thumb we can talk about the head being the intellectual part of us and the heart being the feeling part of us. That's just sort of a broad generalization without getting into the spiritual aspects of each just now.

In our culture, we have for a long time emphasized the intellectual side of ourselves. That's pretty much everything we get in school and, believe it or not, even in church. You see in church adults go to Sunday Schools and study, stimulating the intellect. They also sit and listen to sermons that stimulate their intellect. Sometimes the subjects are even about the heart. But it doesn't matter that they're studying about matters of the heart, the fact is they're still stimulating the intellect, not the heart. The focus of study merely happens to be matters of the heart, like bugs under the microscope of an inquisitive Etymologist.

Even though they study subjects of the heart, since they're intellectualizing them, or stimulating their intellect about them, they're creating an even greater gulf between their head and their heart.

One can never know the matters of the heart by studying them with the head. It just can't happen.

"No one can serve two masters," Jesus said. This is one of the best examples around. We either serve the intellect or we serve the heart. We can' serve both.

The way our educational system is set up, even our so called spiritual education system (which is almost as far from spiritual as we can get) is designed to serve the intellect as master.

The only way to change that is to start listening to your heart. Lead with your heart, first, last, and always.

Those around you may think you've lost your mind, and in a sense they're right. But you're finding your heart.