Heatbeat.
My husband and I are expecting our first baby. We went for my first scan where we discovered that our baby was only 6 weeks old but already a heart beat could be detected! We were amazed. A tiny baby, measuring only a few millimetres (a fraction of the size of a fully developed heart), possessed a minute organ that was already beating, giving life to our child.
“Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made!” Ps 139:13-14 MSG
Letting this all sink in I began to wonder why we associate the heart as a symbol of love. What has an organ that pumps blood around the body, giving us life, have to do with ‘love’? Why do we give heart shaped cards and chocolates to those we love? Or say “I am heart broken” when we suffer loss or are hurt by those we love?
Then it hit me; the awesomeness of it all. If our heart stops beating life ends; yet, in contrast, as the heart starts to beat, life is given… even to the baby in a womb – my baby. Who determines that first heartbeat? Who causes it? Who gives us life? There can be only one answer that makes any sense of it all; our creator God! It is because He loves us, because we are His children that He does this. Our heart beats today because God loved us so much that He gave us life. Without God’s love we wouldn’t have been created, and without our heart we wouldn’t exist. That is a good enough reason for me why the heart is a symbol of love, because it is through God’s love that our heart beats with life.
With Christmas approaching we remember the birth of Jesus, how God created him in his mother’s womb; starting His son’s heart beating because of His love for us.
While Christmas is a joyous time, surrounded by those we love and are reminded of God’s amazing love for us, for some it can be a time of sadness; missing loved ones or having no-one to love. The pain and emptiness of the loss of love can cause them to wish their heart to stop beating, because hope is a distant dawn.
Yet there is hope and we bear the message. In displaying love to others you will allow them to experience God’s love, giving them hope and life. The challenge is how do you take that love to others this Christmas so that their hearts may beat with the fullness of life that God wants to pour out?
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
“Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made!” Ps 139:13-14 MSG
Letting this all sink in I began to wonder why we associate the heart as a symbol of love. What has an organ that pumps blood around the body, giving us life, have to do with ‘love’? Why do we give heart shaped cards and chocolates to those we love? Or say “I am heart broken” when we suffer loss or are hurt by those we love?Then it hit me; the awesomeness of it all. If our heart stops beating life ends; yet, in contrast, as the heart starts to beat, life is given… even to the baby in a womb – my baby. Who determines that first heartbeat? Who causes it? Who gives us life? There can be only one answer that makes any sense of it all; our creator God! It is because He loves us, because we are His children that He does this. Our heart beats today because God loved us so much that He gave us life. Without God’s love we wouldn’t have been created, and without our heart we wouldn’t exist. That is a good enough reason for me why the heart is a symbol of love, because it is through God’s love that our heart beats with life.
With Christmas approaching we remember the birth of Jesus, how God created him in his mother’s womb; starting His son’s heart beating because of His love for us.
While Christmas is a joyous time, surrounded by those we love and are reminded of God’s amazing love for us, for some it can be a time of sadness; missing loved ones or having no-one to love. The pain and emptiness of the loss of love can cause them to wish their heart to stop beating, because hope is a distant dawn.
Yet there is hope and we bear the message. In displaying love to others you will allow them to experience God’s love, giving them hope and life. The challenge is how do you take that love to others this Christmas so that their hearts may beat with the fullness of life that God wants to pour out?
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
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