To LOVE is to be VULNERABLE

To Love is to be Vulnerable

by Ray Fowler

Here is a great quote on love and vulnerability from author C.S. Lewis:

Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering.”
To my nature, my temperament, yes. Not to my conscience. When I respond to that appeal I seem to myself to be a thousand miles away from Christ. If I am sure of anything I am sure that his teaching was never meant to confirm my congenital preference for safe investments and limited liabilities.…
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be 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. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
   ~ from The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis

Trying to grow in my walk with God......Every step helps.....

It's a tragedy when you try and prove your spirituality by things you don't do rather than proving it by the things you do- Leonard Ravenhill


This quote hit me....Now going to google Leonard Ravenhill.


and try do more instead of trying to stand on what I don't do.....

"I think when the kids are to old for Christmas It loses something, just going through the motions"

No one is too old for tidings of comfort and joy.  Thank you Jesus for always waiting for those who do not know you to emerge from the dark into the light.  I pray for them all and I thank all who prayed for me when I was submerged in blackness.