October 28th, 2024

CS Lewis said “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly 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, unredeemable.”

Lord Jesus, loving hurts! Because we love our children we hurt when they hurt. Because we love our friends we hurt when they hurt. Because we love this broken world we hurt. Thank You for showing us a broken heart is better than an unbreakable heart. Amen.