Of Logic and Love

 

Logic and love (aka head and heart)

Can be at constant odds

until we humbly strive to start

to serve no other gods

Until we love the Lord our God

with heart, soul, strength and mind

We cannot be all that we ought

For we are God designed

In writing there is the constant battle 

of blending both heart and head.

To write with only the heart we tend to end up with Beauty

but not always truth. 

To write with only our heads may spout wisdom's facts and truth

but without beauty!

When we parent/love with only our heads 

we are at the risk of being too harsh.

When we parent/love with only our hearts 

we risk being too soft!

Lord, as new day dissolves the dark

and we embark anew

Lord, birth in both our heads and hearts

fresh awareness of You

By the direction of Your Word

To seek You with faith undeterred

The head hosts logic’s hot debates

The heart, the part that loves and hates

The head can wield a rigid rod

The heart, the part that yields to God

The heart is vile without God’s voice

To reconcile the guile of choice

The head holds the tower of thought

The heart holds God’s power, or not

Until the head and heart align

And one to the other resign

The head will be the part that fools

The heart with logic's art of rules

© Janet Martin

 “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart 

and with all your soul 

and with all your strength 

and with all your mind’ 

and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Luke 10:27

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jer.17:9