R You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.
esting in God is a journey and a process. I am a vagabond, of sorts. My heart is prone to wander. Over the past few decades, I’ve moved within the U.S. and lived in Europe for eleven years. My heart has always been most at home on Ireland. Being saturated in the beauty of the Irish landscape urges me to slow down and listen, and helps me remember who I am and who I am not. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
ROMANS 1:20, NIV
What is it that captures our eye? What consumes our attention? To what, or whom, do we affix our affections? These questions help tease out truth from this pithy fellowship of words, saturated with significance: I become what I behold. What we worship—that which our eyes and heart are fixated upon—has the greatest influence over who we become. Taken as a whole, the Scriptures seem to indicate that the human heart is the center of our soul. Therefore, it’s no surprise we’re encouraged to, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” (Proverbs 4:23, NIV). Who we are and who we become flows from our center, our hearts.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354–430 A.D.) CONFESSIONS
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