“There is no safe
investment. 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 Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers
and perturbations of love is Hell.”
Honestly this quote from C.S. Lewis’
Four Loves hits home for me right now. It is one of the most vulnerable things
for one to love, and love fully at that. For me, it is easy to love in an
unromantic way. I love my friends, I love people I’m in ministry with, and it
has been really easy for me to forgive them when I’ve been hurt. However,
loving romantically and forgiving in that sense has become something that is
incredibly difficult for me to do. Being hurt in that sense is probably one of
the scariest things I can think of. This quote is extremely convicting and
challenging though. I don’t want to lock anything up deep in a casket. God has
given us the power to love and has given us the example of Christ and the
Church to do it. That is a beautiful thing and I so badly want the chance to
have that. Scary or not, Lewis hit the nail on the head with this quote.
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