The heart

The scripture describes the heart as a place to delight in the Lord. Proverbs 4:23 tells us to guard our heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Also the scripture warns that the heart is deceitful. So where is the heart? We know that surgeons can transplant a heart from one person to another and that person still maintains the same identity. It seems the heart may originate in the brain. Changes in the brain produce the chemicals that give us feeling. That feeling can influence the heart to pump faster; perhaps slower. So we go back to the mind. The mind also is an electrical process. That means the signal from the brain or a temptation from the evil one travels down the brain through the least path of resistance. Electrical signals are lazy and take the most traveled path in the brain. That makes it important to guard the heart so when the signal is triggered, the path leads to a desired outcome.
"A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit" Proverbs 15:13. I felt that today in a strange set of events. I was in a restaurant and happened to see a place that I had been in the past- the Louisiana Superdome. However, what should be a positive and funny memory turned out to crush my spirit. One of the persons in that memory caused me severe pain and it is no longer something I want to be reminded of. So now I have to let it go and literally think of something else. And I know over time it will fade. If I dwell on the broken relationship, the heartache will continue to crush the spirit. To guard the heart is to deal with it; I cannot change the situation - I tried. I must guard my heart by not allowing the memory to crush my spirit. I remind myself of other positive thoughts such as delighting in the Lord.