The thing about people with good hearts

“Here’s the thing about people with good hearts. 

“They give you excuses when you don’t explain yourself. They accept apologies you don’t give. They see the best in you when you don’t need them. At your worst, they lift you up, even if it means putting their priorities aside. The word ‘busy’ doesn’t exist in their dictionary. They make time, even when you don’t. 

“And you wonder why they’re the most sensitive people, the most caring people, why they are willing to give so much of themselves with no expectation in return. You wonder why their existence is not essential to your well-being. It’s because they don’t make you work hard for the attention they give you. They accept the love they think they’ve earned and you accept the love you think you’re entitled to. Don’t take them for granted. Let me tell you something. Fear the day when a good heart gives up on you. Our skies don’t become grey out of nowhere. Our sunshine does not allow the darkness to take over for no reason. A heart does not turn cold unless it’s been treated with coldness for a while.” 

— Najwa Zebian (Emphasis added)

Good hearted people will always prosper.  Eventually.  The process will, however, involve a great deal of pain.  For good hearted people there’s the need to fortify the heart against being crushed by the pain that is part and parcel of life.

The most important thing for a good-hearted person to remember is, to learn to be with those who are like them, because it’s far too easy to become ensconced with people who are not good hearted; to become subservient to others who will never reciprocate.

Good hearted people consistently think more about others than themselves, even if they still notice how and when people don’t reciprocate the love they so willingly extend.  This is why they’re able to overcome disappoint after disappointment, not that disappointments and exploitations don’t get them down; for they actually can.

Most of all, the good hearted person ought to experience God’s pleasure; that God is pleased how much the good hearted person takes God’s Word to heart; that they consider others before themselves even if others show scant regard for them.  And God vindicates the action of the good hearted person who is compelled to love others with boundaries.

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