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To Love at all is to be Vulnerable

Yesterday, Holly shared a quote from The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis with me. It reflected something with which I sometimes struggle. "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 of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." -C.S. Lewis And then, last night, we watched the movie “Lars and the Real Girl”. It was a beautiful and heartbreaking story of a man who despe