A Penny for Your Heart

Words have become cheap.

I don't mean that words are cheap. They are incredibly powerful and costly. I mean that, in our current age of technology and information overload, words have become cheap. All you have to do is scroll through a news feed to be accosted by the opinion, insight, or musing of everyone you know, everyone you want to know, everyone you think you know, and their closest twelve relatives. It gets to a point where hearing an honest thought has almost become repulsive to me because everyone seems to pass them out without a thought of who they may affect.

And they do affect others. Our casual, off-the-cuff remarks can have a deep and lasting impact, possibly on those we don't even know.

Proverbs states "from the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks." Essentially, we now have multiple platforms on which we can spill our hearts. But have we filtered our hearts? Have we considered what motive caused us to say what we did?

Or, perhaps more importantly, have we considered how vulnerable we make ourselves when we lay bare our words to the general public? That's your heart out there. Are you sure that's where you want it to be?

And so, in adding to the overflow of soul-baring information that has been made so readily accessible, the title for this blog: A Penny for Your Heart.