tell your heart to beat again
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Well my dear ones,
First off, I would like to apologize
for the long time gap between now
and Simba’s story
(Simba...what a cute little spud! =>).
I was set to write something,
“tell your heart to beat again,”
but then my Mom passed away,
and it took me quite a while
to get my own heart to beat again.
[Shakespearian aside to Mom]
“Mom, thanks for being the best Mom
anyone could ever expect to have.
I love you!
And I’ll see you again in heaven.”
http://theeverencouragingword.blogspot.com/2016/07/mom.html
As I was saying, there’s a really cool song
that gets a lot of radio play these days,
“tell your heart to beat again”
by Danny Gokey.
It’s a good tune with a catchy beat,
and I kind of liked it already,
till I caught an interview with the artist
on the background behind it,
and that really added to the song.
There was a pastor in Ohio
who had a heart surgeon who went to his church.
And this pastor really wanted to see
a heart surgery performed.
On the one he got to see one,
the surgeon split the chest,
took out the heart,
repaired it,
and went to do the last step,
to re-start the heart.
But the heart wouldn’t start.
So the surgeon went off script
and did something they don’t
teach you in medical school.
He got down on his knees and said,
“Mrs. Johnson, this is your doctor;
we have fixed your heart.
We have repaired it;
there is nothing wrong with your heart.
“Mrs. Johnson, if you can hear me,
you need to tell your heart to beat again.”
And her heart began to beat.
This is a metaphor for us.
Many of us have been through pain,
been through hurt and disappointment,
abandonment and discouragement.
Yet even after God has fixed our heart,
we can be in pause mode,
like we’re just existing,
but not really living.
We have to come into agreement with
the work that’s been done,
and do like it says in the chorus:
Tell your heart to beat again
Close your eyes and breathe it in
Let the shadows fall away
Step into the light of Grace
Yesterday's a closing door
You don't live there anymore
Say goodbye to where you've been
And tell your heart to beat again
May God lift you up.
May grace surround you.
May your heart beat again.
grace, peace, and love to you,
dave