The Heart is More than the Life-spring ...(sustaining every breath we draw)

Rom.5:5Now hope does not disappoint,because the love of God has been poured out in our heartsby the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Without the love in the above verse to transform once alien hearts, cold and hardour hearts would resemble last's week's ice-cast world... Pondering various heart-conditions and positions in today's poem...💖 1 Sam.16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature,because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees;for man looks at the outward appearance,but the LORD looks at the heart.” Jer.17:9-10“The heart is deceitful above all things,And desperately wicked; Who can know it?I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind,Even to give every man according to his ways,According to the fruit of his doings. Ps.19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heartBe acceptable in Your sight,O Lord, my []strength and my Redeemer. Ps.51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God,And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Prov.4:23Keep your heart with all diligence,For out of it spring the issues of life. Matt 5:Blessed are the pure in heart:for they shall see God Matt.22:37-38Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you:not as the world gives, give I unto you.Let not your heart be troubledneither let it be afraid. Eph.1:18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightenedin order that you may know the hope to which he has called you... Col.3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. The above  Bible verses are but a few of many verses concerning the heart... The heart is more than the life-spring sustaining every breath we drawIt is the crux of every thing we crave or keep with rev'rent awe It skips a beat when happiness is taken by lovely surpriseA newborn babe, *a pretty dress on little girl with sparkling eyesIt revels in nature's fine art, whatever the season maybe God puts a smile in every heart that delights in His majesty The heart is more than an organ that pulses in each mortal sleeveThere mankind's first battle began when the Tempter sought to deceive There still, many a war we wield, that God alone is privy toAs we learn how to trust and yield to He who knows us through and through Who said 'My peace I leave with you' to cheer the heart in trouble's tollWhose promises, steadfast and true anchor the hope that calms the soul Each heart is a rebel at first because of sin's inherent root For humanity is sin-cursed since Eve took the forbidden fruit Until we repent and believe; until the heart, forgiven, livesAnd ceases in vain to achieve the peace that only Jesus givesThe heart is like a wand'ring sheep, lost in the dark, lonesome and coldUntil it trusts the Shepherd's keep and finds the doorway to the fold The heart, ah, who can understand the web and woof of its terrain  It leaps for joy when love is grand; it shatters like fine porcelain When love must suffer sorrow's grief,; when taking up its cross is hardThe heart feels like a brittle leaf  rolling across a frozen yard Until, like the kiss of the sun, God heals the winter of the heartIn wondrous ways, second to none, that only His love can impart And fashions from love's tears and pain, beauty only brokenness earns/learns  After sorrow's ration of rain the morning breaks and joy returnsAnd the heart leaps like a gazelle and laughs where golden puddles lieLike mirrors where our teardrops fell but now showcase redemption's sky Where God's mercy, new every morn redeems the dark with light of day A picture of the heart reborn after death's curse is washed away Janet Martin *We cannot take every photo we wouldbecause it wouldn't be proper, so Imagine a little girl of four,with golden curls and sky-blue eyesand cheeks where rose petals blushlooking up and smiling and slowly twirling as she models with unabashed pride and delight,a new pink dress her mother made for her. There! does your heart not suddenly feel like its been kissed by a princess?!!Mine did, last week when I walked next door for a little catchup visit with neighbours... I had my camera in my pocket and paused instead on my way backto capture ice-ensconced art!