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Guard your heart

This afternoon on the bus a girl sat beside me wearing modest tattoos one on her wrist said Proverbs 4:23 when I asked what that was she told me it means guard your heart you know like Solomon or some other Simon says Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life I said oh ok that's nice what I meant is that it's true but I was more worried about what bad experience she had had to make her feel she needed to give warning with the passage on her wrist or whether she did it because she wanted a tattoo and wanted to warm up her parents to the idea with a view to getting more perhaps a sleeve or maybe something more delicate on the ankle or a shoulder but before I got carried away I remembered Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. and then I wondered how much into the dark side she really was had she ever ...