The First Secret

The heart has many secrets.  It keeps them hidden until it chooses to allow them to entrance knowledge, or until suddenly without warning one of them might emerge to protect itself or others.

Despite self-sabotage, life circumstances, and even attempts of others to destroy it, the heart survives.  There are times the heart no longer wants to survive and has feelings of emptiness, but is driven toward living, toward Life.  

One of the most prolific of the heart's secrets is Fear.  Fear hides in the recesses of the heart's protection until it creates an opening which may be a tiny fracture or even a great chasm to emerge into action.  Fear can be timid and quiet or boisterous and destructive.  Fear has many faces and masks itself in innumerable ways to protect its precarious balancing act. 

Fear saves and Fear destroys.

Perhaps the sacredness of this secret is the paradox of its innate ability to both protect and,  to create complete annihilation while masking itself in its many disguises to keep the heart from knowing.  Could it be the responsibility of the mind to enter into the heart and become partnered to enable Fear to find it's true sacredness? The sacredness of knowing only One Power.   The Power that is the building up, the bringing forth, the creating, the health of body, mind, and spirit.

The Fire of the Sacred is the Life of all being. 

Sacred Secrets of a Reclusive Heart - The First Secret© 2018

~Margie Owens Phillips 2018