Deuteronomy 30:6 · World English Bible
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
A hard skin can grow over a heart, a callus of old habits and self-protection that keeps love from passing in or out. The promise is that the One who made the heart will do the cutting Himself, peeling back what a person could never remove alone.
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A hard skin can grow over a heart, a callus of old habits and self-protection that keeps love from passing in or out. The promise is that the One who made the heart will do the cutting Himself, peeling back what a person could never remove alone. A share still remains: stop defending the callus, sit in honest sorrow over it, and ask for it to be taken.
The love this points toward is His own, given first so it can return to Him. The spring and the stream that flows back to it are one water.
Sufism lens
Where have I gone hard to protect myself, and what has it been keeping out?
What is soft and yielding is alive, and what has gone stiff and hard belongs to death. A hardened person is not strong, only brittle.
Nothing is as whole as a broken heart. The cracked place is where something can finally get in.
Krishna tells Arjuna to let go of the whole weight and come to him, and says he will do the freeing. The surrender is the part that belongs to the person.
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