Feeling It in Your Heart
Luke 24:13-35
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by Kenneth J. Hockenberry

In the greatest movie of all time, "It's a Wonderful Life" – you remember at the end of the movie, Burt the cop brings Harry home, through the snow storm. And the Bailey living room is filled with friends, there to help George in his time of need. And Harry offers a toast – "to my big brother George, the richest man in town."

Right there – that's what I'm talking about. In those words, in that moment, we know the truth of that word in our guts. George is the richest man in town – not in money – but because of his many friends, whose lives he has touched, and who have touched his.

What we feel from that movie we also know in our lives. When we hear something that is true and right, we feel it deep down - there is a kind of bodily resonance that occurs. We even respond with the words, "that really moved me."

Luke refers to this as heart burn:

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?"

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