"To love is to be vulnerable" - C.S. Lewis
This quote keeps popping up whether it be in conversations with friends, in chapel, or randomly in my mind. These six words have such a huge impact. Lewis wants the point to come across crystal clear: Love hurts.
See love causes people to be vulnerable. It causes people to be real with each other. By choosing to love people you are seeing what their life is actually like. When you let others love you, you are letting them see all of your imperfections. At any point those who you've opened up to can leave, and some do. Whatever the reason they chose to leave, focus on the ones that stayed. Be happy that there are people that stuck around because they care.
When we love, we are not promised pain free. We are taught that love hurts. Loving anything and anyone for any reason can hurt. The greater your ability to love the more likely you are too feel pain.
Sometimes I feel like I love too much. I love to the point that "if they could just understand..." I love to the point that I would rather take on other peoples hurts than have them go through any pain...
"To love is to be vulnerable"
My heart breaks every Wednesday night when I leave the kids and head back to campus. It seem that I'm moving in a 1 step forward 2 steps back kind of way. My heart breaks when my kids refuse to let me go because they know you love them and they desperately need to feel it. My heart breaks when they can be so smart yet be continually told they are not. my heart breaks when my kids do not feel they are special. They are some much more then special to me, and I love them.
This idea of coming before God with a heart, or rather hands full of broken pieces that were once a heart and just offering it up to him to fix came up in a conversation and for whatever reason it has stuck with me. I know for me there will be multiple times where I come before God with my broken pieces look at him and say "It broke...Can you fix it?"
"To love is to be vulnerable"
So my challenge to you... love people! Really truly love people... because people are awesome (even if they can end up hurting you!)
God Bless,
He has made you Beautiful!
