Have you ever heard the old saying…

God keeps breaking your heart until it opens.

Another way to say it; what keeps showing up in your life that you keep stepping around?

Same challenge, different season. Same conversation, different person. Same door you keep walking past.

Here’s what I’ve been sitting with: some adversity isn’t random. It’s a nudge. It’s life pointing us back toward where we’re supposed to be, and the harder we resist, the louder it gets.

I came across a line in The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon that got me thinking about this idea of “heart.” The one we talk about all the time without really understanding what that is.

We say someone “has a big heart.” We say they “put heart into it.” We say it like it’s a figure of speech but did you know,

HeartMath Institute research says the heart gives off an electromagnetic field you can measure several feet away, and it’s 5,000x stronger than the one the brain gives off. You can check it out at heartmath.org.

Whatever you make of the science, you’ve felt it. You’ve walked into a room and known something was off before anyone spoke. You’ve been around someone calm and felt your shoulders drop.

We’re all broadcasting, all the time. Excited, angry, nervous, steady. People pick it up.

So what are you broadcasting while you ignore the thing you already know?

Hard seasons keep pushing us back toward our heart until we finally listen.

That doesn’t mean every hard thing means you’re off track. Some hard is just the work. But when the same struggle keeps circling back, pay attention.

And when things start to flow, when doors open without you forcing them, that’s worth noticing too. It often means you’re walking in your purpose. Walking in your heart.

Call it God. Call it the universe. Call it intuition, or the part of you that already knows. The name matters less than the listening.

It’s been talking. It’s not going to stop.

This week’s challenge: Take 3 minutes a day, no phone. Ask one question: What keeps showing up that I keep avoiding? Write down the first answer, even if it’s one word.

In peace,
Shonn