Held in the heart

After Philippians 1:3-11

What does it mean, to be

held in the heart? Is it

a fellowship of grace,

a partaking, or a yearning

of affection? Is it a prayer?

Is it love that abounds

and overflows? Or is it 

knowledge, or discernment? 

Perhaps it is a striving toward

and approaching excellence?

Or a purity and innocence,

without blame? Is it a synonym

of righteousness and its fruit?

Or is all we can say with precision

and certainty is that it has a point,

a purpose, a process, and a goal?

God only knows.

Photograph by Bruce Hong via Unsplash. Used with permission.