Open Heart

"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, and irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." -C.S. Lewis The word vulnerable what does that even mean?            By definition to be vulnerable is to be exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally: Synonym words for vulnerability: accessible, defenseless, exposed, NAKED, sensitive, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, UNGUARDED, UNPROTECTED, UNSAFE, WEAK, wide open. Antonyms: closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure I don’t kn

Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth 57  Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,      for in you my soul  takes refuge; in  the shadow of your wings  I will take refuge,      till the storms of destruction pass by. 2  I cry out to God Most High,      to God who  fulfills his purpose for me. 3  He will send from heaven and save me;      he will put to shame  him who tramples on me.  Selah God will send out  his steadfast love and his faithfulness! 4  My soul is in the midst of  lions;      I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose  teeth are spears and arrows,      whose  tongues are sharp swords. 5  Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!      Let your glory be over all the earth! 6  They set  a net for my steps;      my soul was  bowed down. They  dug a pit in my way,      but they have fallen into it themselves.  Selah 7  My heart is  steadfast, O God,      my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! 8       Awake,  my