have you checked your heart?

Not only is February the month of love but it is also "American Heart month".

I was looking at The Centers for Disease control and prevention's web sight and found this

"Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; one in every three deaths is from heart disease and stroke, equal to 2,200 deaths per day."

That is a hard thing to grasp isn't it?  Not only are we encouraged to develop a healthier eating habits, exercise and make a doctors visit but we also need to "check" our hearts.

How many of us have things we are holding on to? All of us I would say.

How many of us have hurt that we will not let go? We need to all have a heart check. We need to allow whatever is blocking our hearts go. Especially as girls we tend to hold onto things that someone in a relationship told us or what our parents may have said so many years ago.

I know I myself can remember almost everything hurtful that was said to me by a friend. Yes words hurt but we have to learn to let go.

How is your heart? Are you holding in anger or holding on to hurt? How is your walk with God right now?

Our hearts should be sacred.

A list of things I need to work on.

1. Letting go of hurt.

2. Learning to love (even if it hurts)

3. Forgiving people (even when you do not feel they deserve it)

4. taking care my health. 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.