Love Me, Love My Heart

Why devotion to the Sacred Heart?  Not simply the coolness of having images of Jesus holding his heart in the palm of his hand, oh no.  Excerpts:

...In the Bible, the "heart" refers to the "center" of the person, where reason, will, temperament and tenderness converge. To refer to a person's moral character, the sacred writers routinely describe that person's heart, because there the person finds his unity and interior orientation. The heart is the symbol and synthesis of the person. Therefore to adore Jesus' sacred heart is to worship him in his totality.

But the heart is also the most striking symbol of love. To focus on Jesus' sacred heart is to focus on Jesus as love incarnate. Jesus said as much when he appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1675:"Behold the heart which has so much loved men that it has spared nothing, even exhausting and consuming itself in testimony of its love..."