Your heart needs watchfulness

The heart can grow sick with pride, envy, resentment, or disordered desire. Many times those wounds begin as small thoughts that we let grow without examining them. Guarding the heart is not living obsessively, but checking which affections are in charge inside. Turning to God, confession, and honesty help to clean up before the disorder becomes a habit. The inner life needs patience. Some emotions warn of a wound, of tiredness, or of a disordered desire; others simply pass. Maturing means not treating them as law, yet not ignoring them as if they said nothing.