"Bless Your Heart"
A phrase that never fails to send my mind into memories of a summer I spent in North Carolina drinking sweet tea with an old family friend. "Bless your heart". At a girls bible study tonight I realized that this phrase is used ALL the time in the south, and in the oddest of circumstances. I secretly suspect the southerners use this phrase to avoid awkward moments in conversations. However, this phrase is interesting to me. To bless means to express care for something. . . so why do we go around "blessing" stranger's hearts? The truth is why don't we ACT on it when we feel someone needs a helping hand instead of dismissing the .. ."I broke my arm two days ago rescuing baby koalas" with an apathetic "Bless your heart". As a Christian I find it worthwhile and important to actually make things happen instead of just meaning well, so next time your neighbor is telling you how their arm is broken from rescuing baby koalas, please carry their groceries inside for them! God is constantly giving us opportunities to share His love with other people! After all, the best leaders are servants. I challenge you to start demonstrating love as an action, instead of stumbling through life "meaning well".
Romans 13:8
"for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."
Kinsey this is good!! You obviously have a knack for writing, and wisdom beyond your years. Keeeeep doing this (:
ReplyDeleteBless your heart . . . so glad you wrote this post. True . . . we say those words but then we should act on them. Sigh . . .
ReplyDeleteThanks SO much for the encouragement you guys ! I appreciate it more than you know! And yes apathy is so subtle yet so damaging. . . I'm sighing right there with ya! (:
ReplyDeleteAlso, you are allowed to say any number of insulting things as long as it is prefaced with "well, bless your heart" as in "Well bless your heart that baby is uglier than a naked mole rat." See, totally fine!
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