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Wednesday has a particular weight to it. Not the bright anticipation of Monday, when the week still holds its promise. Not the relieved exhale of Friday, when you can finally set things down. Wednesday is the middle of the road — the stretch where the radio fades and you realize you've still got miles to go.
By midweek, things have had time to get under your skin. A conversation that didn't go right. A bill you didn't expect. News you can't do anything about but can't stop turning over. And somewhere in the accumulation of small things, the heart starts to take on water.
Solomon knew this. He wasn't talking to mystics or monks when he wrote Proverbs. He was talking to people with work to do and worry to spare. His counsel was plain and almost urgent — guard your heart. Not decorate it. Not explain it. Guard it. Like something worth protecting. Like a gate you actually close.
Because what lives inside us determines what flows out. The patience we offer, or don't. The kindness we extend, or withhold. The peace we carry into a room, or the tension we bring.
The gate doesn't guard itself. Guard the gate.
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." — Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
So today — right here in the long middle of the week — maybe the wisest thing you can do is stop for just a moment. Not to fix everything. Just to notice what you've been letting in. What voices have had free run of the place. What fears have taken up residence.
And then hand it over. All of it. To the One who was never rattled by your Wednesday.
Something to sit with: What's one thing you've carried through the gate this week that was never yours to carry?
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