5: Heart

Each of us has within us a center that gives us life and determines the direction of our life: our heart.

 

Your heart can turn one way or the other. It’s your heart that’s the hinge.

 

We each have a will, a capacity to choose.

 

So how can we learn to choose well?

 

Sources: Luke 10:25-28 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 30:15-18 (NIV)

Joshua 24:23 (ESV)

James 4:13-16 (NIV)

Luke 9:23-24 (multiple translations)

The Episcopal Church, “Holy Baptism,” in The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David (New York: Church Publishing, 1979).

Nichola Tyler, et al. “Reorienting Locus of Control in Individuals Who Have Offended Through Strengths-Based Interventions: Personal Agency and the Good Lives Model.” Frontiers in psychology vol. 11 553240. 15 Sep. 2020, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.553240

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