dailydatewithgod

Have you ever thought about how your heart sits inside your chest and how it is surrounded by lungs?  Most of us, unless we are doctors or nurses do not spend time contemplating the interplay between the heart and the lungs yet it is integral to our livelihood.  It is fascinating to me the proximity of the heart and lungs as compared to the heart and the brain.  Clearly, all three are needed but why bother to have the heart and lungs in such close proximity?  It is also interesting to me that this virus which is holding us all captive seems to thrive in the lungs.  Perhaps in some metaphysical way, it is calling upon us to lean more on our hearts which are closest in proximity and support our lungs.  With all the uncertainty and fear which is as much of a pandemic as the actual physical health situation, we need the energy of our hearts to keep our minds from going off the deep end.  To fuel our minds we need clean and clear oxygen pumping through our lungs.  All of this energy runs in and out of our hearts.  It might seem more obvious that this is a call to our hearts if the threat was to our hearts directly, but maybe this is a gentle call upon us to use the energy of our hearts as our first defense because of its proximity to our lungs.  Maybe we are being invited to strengthen the focus on our hearts and engage the courage which may have become dormant to impact first what is in closest proximity and then reach out further.