{"id":121,"date":"2009-01-05T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/01\/loves-labors-won.html"},"modified":"2009-01-05T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:52:00","slug":"loves-labors-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/01\/loves-labors-won.html","title":{"rendered":"Love’s Labor’s Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How do you measure a human heart?
By beats and chambers four?
By calculating capacity,
Or do you look for more?<\/p>\n

Do you follow the Egyptians
Placing hearts upon a scale?
The ones that were the heaviest
Were those beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

Or should we think like Hebrews
Who saw within the heart
The locus of thought, feeling, will
The place where \u2018souls\u2019 start?<\/p>\n

Or should we heed the doctors
Who say its just a pump,
That keeps our lifeblood circulating
While listening to it thump?<\/p>\n

But what of seers and sages
Who spoke so long ago.
And told us the heart is where God dwells
And love divine also? <\/p>\n

Judging a heart is not a task
The faint of heart should try
There\u2019s more to love than feelings
Much more than meets the eye. <\/p>\n

And if we ask about love\u2019s labors
And when they may be done
It is by loving others
That a true heart is won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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