I was meditating on a line sung by a youth choir, "I'll hold your people in my heart." The phrase that rested in my mind was "your people," GOD's people, not mine, or mine only indirectly. I may hold them in my heart, as long as I remember that they are mine only by association, but they are God's by nature and right.

Holding someone in my heart is different from holding someone in my hands. My hands can close around the held person and grasp them and restrain them, even imprison them. But my heart can only open to them, be vulnerable before them, care about them, invite them in. Hearts cannot force or impose, and holding in the heart has nothing to do with control. Hands can hold on to; hearts hold someone up before God.