Hidden Hearts

The other day at work, I didn't have lunch. We had a meeting. So in the afternoon I was a tad hungry- and I spied a tin of cookies at the nurses' station desk. The tin said they were those Dutch Royal butter cookies. Well those aren't my favorite by any means but I was wanting to munch so I opened the tin and guess what was inside!!!

Not butter cookies but the tin contained ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BALLS!!! And they were Homemade! Bless whoever made them. What a beautiful and tasty treat.

But somehow this pleasant surprise also made me think of how quickly some people are to judge books by the cover or people by their outward appearance. So many people seem to not look at a person's heart but just see what they see on the outside and make their decisive judgments that are so often unfair and unkind.

I see this sometimes in church settings, for instance I feel a lot of guys do not like how I look so don't even want to be my friend or say hi,etc. Their loss. I see it at work and in the community.

And I don't like when I see it in my own life and heart. While I don't think I'm as extreme as some, I definitely am aware that I need to do better at looking at the heart of others. I think it is hard to do this in mortality- human hearts are so coverered up w/pain, grief, fear. But I need to try to do better.

I am glad the Lord says He looks at the heart and not the outward appearance. I hope I can do better.