SUPPLE

Only a soft heart can accept truth

A soft heart is supple, ready to adapt and respond to something new and challenging. A hard heart is rigid, inflexible, and unmovable.

A man with a hard heart wraps himself around his beliefs like a fossilized hand clinging to a rock. His heart is dead, petrified in both form and fear. But the soft-hearted man is alive and welcoming to challenge because he is not afraid. He wants to know the truth because he trusts its source and knows that it will never harm him.

A child starts with a soft heart because everything is new to him. If surrounded by love, he will remain supple into young adulthood. But if raised by hard hearts his too will calcify with mistrust and fear, something he too will pass on to his children unless something intercedes.

As a man passes through middle age, he will find his heart beginning to stiffen regardless of how much his parents loved him. The worries and temptations of life will gather like vines around his spirit and threaten to choke out the suppleness of his youth. His heart will be like his joints, in need of exercise and lubrication to remain flexible. Like his bones, his heart will begin to ache unless something intercedes.

Only a soft heart can accept truth