To Love and To Be Vulnerable

“We admire each other for our strengths, but we care for each other most for our vulnerabilities.” – Jocelyn Soriano

It is our vulnerabilities that help us to love each other more. They give us a chance to offer something for another, to protect our beloved, even to suffer with someone else’s pain. With our vulnerabilities, we easily pass from pride and pretense towards the heart of a person, a heart that needs to be loved.

Who has not understood a person better after he has seen her at her most vulnerable? Who has not known another better after that person has taken of her mask of invincibility?

God Himself became vulnerable for us. For us He became a vulnerable child, willing to be fed and taken care of. For us He became man, subject to the same hunger and temptations we go through. For us, He experienced suffering, and even death.

God has no need for anything, but He allowed Himself to become vulnerable to give us the chance to love Him even more.

“…for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.” – Matthew 25, WEB

“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

Check Jocelyn's books:

"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.

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