The Unguarded Heart creates emotions in the reader that will lead them to question their own hearts. People suffer from inner torment when their hearts are left unguarded. Each reader will question who their own deceivers in their lives are and how to remove them from their lives. Tatum is a character that readers can relate to that faces her own inner torment. With the holy trinities help God the Father, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit Tatum finds the courage to face her own heart. She learns to heal, understand, and see herself in the way that God sees her. We never change in Gods eyes because he created us and knows our story and what we are capable of. The reader will be led to find God and desire to know God.