Cultivate thoughts, feelings, and desires that align with your conscience, encourage you, and give you peace. Weed out the rest!

The habits, attitudes, and desires that you daily cultivate will either open the gate to joy or shut you up in despair. Bring your heart out of the shadows and let the sunshine in.

An uncultivated heart is a undercurrent of emotional anarchy, but a heart that’s been cultivated to align and grow with God is a fountain of joyous life! The human heart isn’t designed to be a closet that you clutter with cravings and compulsions that cause you to violate your conscience. It’s an inner prayer closet where you can live in continual connection with the compassion and caring of Jesus Christ!

The fruit of God’s Spirit is gifts of grace that grow as you cultivate them within you. The fruit of God’s Spirit won’t grow in a hard, uncultivated heart.

If you won’t cultivate your heart to grow compassion, humility, and beauty, it will overgrow with tormenting feelings and desires that will overpower and control you. To grow inner peace work hard on heart cultivation so God’s seeds of grace can flourish within you.

When Christ-followers gather to cultivate open-hearted sharing, God’s light begins to brightly shine among them as they experience Christ’s town hall meeting (ekklesia) in action. If you will open your heart and let people see your brokenness, the brokenness in them will respond with compassion and your hearts will connect in caring community.

An untended heart
Grows anxiety
And insecurity.
They take over like weeds
Choaking out good seeds.
Cultivate your heart
As long as it takes
Until all weeds are gone
And it flourishes with
High hopes and beauty.

There's no debate.
Your life will gravitate
Toward whatever state
You cultivate
And allow to grow
In your heart.

You heart is designed
To be God's garden.
Not a plot
That you harden
Until it grows
Only weeds.
Open it up
To receive
God's pardon
And let Him grow
His dazzling garden
Within you.

Fill your heart with delight.
You can't cultivate your heart
If you hide it from your sight.
To grow a heart full of delight
It's essential to
Step beyond your fright,
Walk in the light,
Embrace unwanted insight,
Look honestly at the blight,
And work to make things right.