In Search Of The Heart

In Search of the Heart: The first book of Dr. David Allen’s landmark trilogy discusses the importance of living life from the center, the heart. It helps the reader realize that even if you didn’t receive love as a child, you can still get it – and give it – by opening your heart to God’s love. The heart, like the center of a bicycle wheel, is where all the spokes or issues of our lives converge. Only as we live from that center are we able to touch and be touched by our deepest or true selves as well as the selves of others. In this book through personal and professional experiences, Dr. Allen discusses lives that are wounded and that in order to liberate ourselves we have to work through our hurt trails to be able to open to our love story. Committing to love simply means opening to the experience of God's presence in our lives and recognizing that His presence is manifested by His loving care, which spreads among us as well as throughout nature. Dr. Allen discusses seven attitudes of the heart that are important in developing our spiritual and psychological life: love, communion, facing the heart's resistance, humility, simplicity, service, and transcendence. This is all done by plucking concepts from secular psychology and fitting them into a biblically-oriented framework.