"To love 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 [A quote from, "Consumed Ministries" blog.]

I was deeply struck by this quote from C.S. Lewis. I sometimes wonder at the heart of our Abba Father as His Spirit ministers to His Children. Is His heart wrung as we make decisions that grieve and sometimes even quench the voice of the Spirit in our beings?
Can I continue to love with an openness as I think about the possible consequences of knowing the pain that comes from disappointment and betrayal? But, even an even more important question, Do I really have an option as a Child of God?
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