Take It To Heart

Deuteronomy 30:1
When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

The blessings and curses mentioned are from the previous chapters. There was no question they would come. Then the job of the Israelites was to take them to heart. No matter where they were--Poland, Russia, Ethiopia...
Skimming through this chapter, I find that the heart comes up again and again. But I would like to take them one at a time and not jump ahead. I want to take a few minutes to consider this idea, of taking the blessings and curses to heart. That is actually one way of looking at what I have been trying to do of late--to stop going through daily activities numbly, but to take into my heart the blessings and the curses, so that I can adjust my course accordingly.
I guess that has been one good in changing my job. Instead of going day to day to day, I've been stopped in my tracks and forced to pay attention. Now, of course, over two months in, I feel myself in danger of going on automatic again.
But I don't want to. I want to be alive and sensitive to blessings and curses alike.