You come to Me here every morning as if to a water trough. You are thirsty. You come for a drink of God. I am here.

Do not feel bad if you do not always feel your deep connection with Me. There is value in despair. You get thirstier and hungrier, and so you are motivated to seek the more you seek, even when you don’t know the name of it. Hunger and thirst are great motivators. They urge you on. They get you moving. They are your coaches. Give them your attention.

Suffering of all kinds, physical and financial, loneliness, all these bring you to the water trough of God. Thank them for bringing you closer to Me. They have been your buddies for this time they stayed with you.

Of course, you didn’t really need them, for I press the water of My love to your lips constantly. And yet those friends carried your awareness to Me. Even if they were not necessary, they served a purpose. I send you love. Beloveds, but do not think I sent these erstwhile buddies to you. I never said you must have them.

It is as if you have been wounded in war. Suffering and pain are like your medics who rush you into the tent of God where all healing takes place. It is your heart that gets wounded, beloved. It is always the heart. Even pain from your big toe comes from your heart. Your heart has been squeezed, and it yells, “Ouch” through your toe. Whatever the illness or pain, it comes from your heart. Heart damage is the real cause. Your heart needs to be healed. It is always your heart that needs to be healed.

Let Us heal your heart right now. Whenever you resisted, you hardened your heart. Yet your heart is to remain soft. It is never to be hardened. Hardness does not benefit your heart. Your heart is not meant to be bolstered. It is meant to be softened. Be soft-hearted. You do not have to admit anything into your heart that would harden it. Let’s unharden your heart now.

Unburden your heart of anger and all such emotion. You truly feel those emotions in your heart, and yet those emotions have no place in your heart. Your heart wears a white wedding gown, as it were, and no mud is to be thrown at it. Your wedding dress of a heart can take a lot of mud, and yet none of the mud belongs there. Your heart is meant to be pure and clean and as fresh as a daisy. Be clean-hearted. Wash your heart with love today. It is with good reason that Valentines are shaped like hearts. Hearts are where love and love alone is to abide, to abide and then to be given away, making place for more love, new love, love resounding, love abounding, eternal infinite love filling every crevice, love spilling out, love splashing, love having fun.

You might have thought that putting up a strong barrier around your heart would protect it, but such a fence only hurts it. The stronger the fence, the more it abrades your heart. Your heart becomes a prisoner of the fence. Your heart is not meant to be part of a gated community. Your heart is meant to be right out there in the open to receive love and to stream love out like sparkling water in a running brook.

Your heart is your guide, and it is splendid. It is the leader of the band. Your heart belongs right out there in front. By all means, lead with your heart.