A Worn Heart

Love is not lost. It is waiting to be found again. There is something in every one of our hearts that remembers what it felt like to love freely — to trust without effort, to connect without fear, to give and receive love with a naturalness that required no management and no careful calculation. That memory is not an illusion. It is the echo of who we were always made to be. The Worn Heart is written for every heart that has felt the distance — from others, from love, and from the Source that sustains us. It is written with the deep and unwavering conviction that no heart among us is too worn for restoration, no wound is too deep for healing, and no distance from love is too far to return from. We are not broken. We are worn. And there is a profound difference. Wearing happens to every human heart. It begins not with failure or fault but with the simple reality of being human — of arriving in a world that places every soul at some distance from the love it was always designed to live within. Life adds its own weight to that distance. But neither the distance nor the weight is permanent. Neither is stronger than the love that is always, quietly and patiently, waiting to restore what the wearing has covered. In these pages we find honest and compassionate language for what our hearts have been carrying. We find the understanding that makes genuine healing possible. And above all we find the hope — not a fragile or uncertain hope, but a deep and well-founded one — that the love we were made for is closer than the wearing has led us to believe. Our hearts were made for love. Made to trust freely, to give generously, and to receive without anxiety the love that was always meant to flow through us. That capacity has not been destroyed. It has simply been covered. And this book is an invitation — gentle, honest, and full of genuine hope — to begin the beautiful journey of uncovering it together. The Worn Heart is the second volume in the A Self-Aware Soul Series by KC Chikolwa — a warm and sustaining companion to The Relational Heart and an invitation to every worn heart to come home to the love we were all always made for.