I know!

So I was reading in either Psalms or Isaiah or Jeremiah the other day....I can't remember, even though I've looked up the verse on multiple occassions. Can't recall. Anyways, there was a verse that stated something to the effect of "the heart is the most deceiving thing that exists." I found this very interesting. It makes sense. I mean, behind the most despicable individuals or acts or ludicrous things in life lies a person with a heart....and now we know about that heart ;0). I now find it amusing and helpful as it relates to coping with people in my field of work to think of their situations in terms of that stupid deceptive heart!! Of all of the people or systems or bureaucracies that plague my life, its funny to me to think that none of them has earned the label of most deceptive---not even the embodiment of Satan himself. The heart gets the award. None of these things are truths that I have not discussed with some of you previously---but aside from all the talk--here it is hiding in Jeremiah! Seems pretty cut and dry to me. Imagine a life in which our whole "spiritual strategy" was to kick our own heart's trash. Forget everyone else, focus on yourself---your heart is the problem here---it's the only thing truly fooling you. If you can master what your own jacked up heart thinks, you've won the war. But then does it know what it doesn't know or is it covering up what you don't know with what you think that you know and those that you know don't know what they know or don't know until LJ blogs a blog entitled 'I know!.' Hilarious. Again, nothing particularly revolutionary--but further confirmation that life is complicated because it's made of people and those gosh darn hearts!
Okay, I went and looked it up "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?" Jeremiah 17:9