About This Blog: A Change

If you haven't noticed, my blog has changed some. The title of this blog used to be 'Art of the Heart': Go Hard, Don't Waste, Keep Real', but it is now 'Thoughts of the Heart'.

Side note: In the Bible the 'heart' has many meanings. For example:

1. Inner man, mind, will, soul, midst
2. Understanding, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory
3. Inclination, resolution, determination
4. Conscience, heart of moral character
5. Seat of appetites, seat of emotions, passions, or of courage

 So instead of blogging about Art and the Artist, I will be blogging more about the Heart, deep thoughts, revelations, lessons, ideas, and deductions that come forth from it, or effect it. (My own heart, being the starting point ;-)

As Ecclesiastes 3 says "There is a time and a season for everything"...
And so my blog is entering a new season.

Still in many ways it will be similar, because the same principle will remain:
Out of the heart comes what a man produces. Be it art, words, actions, decisions...
So my old blog description remains relevant:

 What does it mean to live motivated by what we believe? What we believe determines
who we will become...

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart. Luke 6:45

I hope you enjoy the random and sometimes excessive thoughts put to posts. I have an overactive mind, and tend to truly enjoy analyzing people and discovering 'why they do what they do'. And I apologize if I my perspectives on myself too much, but in a way blogging is like journaling, and although it has a broader audience, it is still a form of self discovery, and and outlet of one's personal ponderings lol.
Anywho, I hope even so that you may find these thoughts interesting, and perhaps even relatable and encouraging to your own life.

And while I'm at it, here are a few more scirptures that come to mind about the heart, and what the center of our thoughts should be. So that even when storms may hit our minds, these scriptures remind us that God is a refuge, and that good thoughts are actually healthy thoughts :).

Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace, whose mind (aka heart) is stayed on thee, because he trusts in You.

Romans 12: 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that be testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good, acceptable and perfect.

Philippians 4:8
Finally brethren, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy or praise, think on these things.

Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. 1 Sam 16:7