There’s a proverb that reads, “Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Proverbs 4:23). Anyone who went to Christian youth group knows this proverb mostly in a dating context, but when I think about what it means to guard my heart these days, I think about what I’m allowing in and what I’m not allowing in. I want more kindness, more love, more compassion. I can’t allow in cruelty or meanness or snark. Because our hearts are the wellspring, the center from which everything else flows, and it’s up to each of us to tend to our heart and protect it.
