Tia Kim reads her article, The Gift of a Quiet Heart.

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"A quiet heart was a rare jewel this year.

Fear, anxiety, anger, and complaining – so much complaining – ruled our hearts. As an older minister once said about himself to Charles Spurgeon, our souls were like 'weaning rather than weaned' children.

What is the difference? The weaning child’s desires are at the center of his universe. Give me milk or I shall die, he cries to his mother who suddenly withholds her milk. But a weaned child has learned to say with David,

'O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvelous for me.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother;

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, hope in the Lord

from this time forth and forevermore.'

(Psalm 131)

Where is the calmed and quieted soul in 2020? Through the many, unexplained sufferings in this life, how do we keep a heart like the weaned child?

We must begin with humility."

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Tia Kim lives in southern California with her husband and two boys. They are members of Bethany Baptist Church in Bellflower, CA. She writes, sometimes with ink or watercolor, at tiajoykim.com.

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