12/23/2025
Loving the Heart That Loves So Many: A Call to True Heart Stewardship
Advent closes with love—the kind that gives, protects, sacrifices, and sustains. And for many Black women, love is expressed every day in caregiving, community support, ministry, emotional labor, and holding families together.
But the heart that carries all that love often doesn’t receive the same care in return.
Cardiometabolic disease disproportionately affects Black women. Not because of lack of discipline, but because of chronic stress, limited access to truly personalized care, and years of putting everyone else first.
This Advent calls you back to love—love for your literal heart.
Loving your heart looks like:
* Supporting blood pressure with nutrition, movement, and stress management
* Getting labs checked consistently
* Understanding family history
* Prioritizing sleep
* Reducing hidden inflammation
* Being proactive instead of waiting for a crisis
* Letting yourself rest without guilt
* Making space for joy, laughter, and connection
In Scripture, love is described as patient and kind. Extend that same kindness to yourself. Your heart is not simply an organ—it is the emotional, spiritual, and physical center of everything you give to others.
Your reflection for this week:
What is one loving act of stewardship you can offer your heart—and your whole self—this week?
Advent leads us to Christ’s love, but it also calls us to embody love in the way we care for ourselves. Caring for your heart is not indulgence. It is worship through stewardship.
~K.F. Henry | store.rbh.health/renewed