DAY 17: Ways to Win my Heart
If the words I was supposed to write on were about stealing my heart, I’d have lots to say. But wining my heart. Meh. I don’t even like the words win my heart. I don’t like clichés full stop. Also, The word win doesn’t have perfectly positive connotations. Win my heart. Winning is so one-sided; if someone won my heart, that means I must’ve lost something. It makes it sound like my heart is a football in an immature game of keep-away. It also sounds like I’m living in a castle two hundred years ago looking down from my castle window at the commoners below who are fighting to win my my heart while 7 servants standing around me to guard my heart lest someone succeed in winning it.
With these dark images hovering, I decided to search my Bible app with the word win in case there was a proverb or something to inspire me. Proverbs (ESV) says that Good sense wins favour, and I can agree with that. But winning favour isn’t the same thing as winning a heart. Is it?
Maybe I’ve got it wrong, but my heart isn’t up for grabs. If I want to give my heart away I do it. There’s not a lot anyone can do to win it if I don’t want to give it. I’m either selfish or not very trusting or both, but if you want my heart, the best way to get it is to give me yours. When hearts are involved it’s a two way street. When hearts are involved, possession is more valuable if the heart is freely given rather than won. If hearts need wining, what happens when you’re not feeling competitive? Do you lose the heart you formerly won?
Anyway, I don’t really care about the winning part. It’s staying that’s the most important. Anyone can win anything, but not everyone has the courage not to duck when angry words hurtle like baseballs. Not everyone has the stamina to wait out storms.
Give me a love that isn’t shaken by an argument or disagreement, give me a love that doesn’t die because of time. (r.h. Sin)
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