"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis
I began writing a more extensive blog addressing this quote, but I have found that tonight my words are failing me. I will instead let this amazing quote by C.S. Lewis speak for me. If you are reading this, then I encourage you to keep on loving others. Keep on trusting. Don't get me wrong, it hurts...a lot, but don't build up the walls. Break them down. Be vulnerable. Don't give up.
No comments:
Post a Comment