I stumbled upon this quote from C.S. Lewis:
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
This is something I have been working on. I've been trying to allow God to break down the walls I put up around my heart and let myself be truly vulnerable. The fact is, no one wants to be vulnerable. No one wants to be hurt. But the truth is, we need to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, or else, our hearts will become "unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
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That statement is very true. Take it from someone who's married. It is still hard being vulnerable. You just don't want to hurt and to be hurt. The only problem is, in order to be loved the most we must be willing to be heart the most. No one knows that better than God himself.
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