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My little brother sent me these lyrics… They are undoubtedly liberating… These are words to build a life on These are Your words how can they be mine These are words to build a life on These are Your words I want them to be mine Blessed are the poor Blessed are the weak Blessed are the ones Who...

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Love and Vulnerability

Posted by Hannah Etsebeth | Posted in Musings | Posted on 05-11-2009

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“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 (The Four Loves)

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