“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 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 of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.”
- C.S. Lewis The Four Loves

C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite thinkers. This statement really hit me; that to love, the greatest of which is to sacrifice and to put others before yourself unconditionally, is most certainly a risk. When you do that, you become completely vulnerable to heartache. Yet you find that it is so rewarding.

This quote was actually the thought behind the song I wrote for the short film, “To Take A Chance”. The verses were:

To love is to hurt, to try is to break
To take a chance is sweet romance
Jump out and find.

To love is to wring for all to see
Your broken heart, but yet you sing.

I’m glad God allows people like C.S. Lewis to put such awesome thoughts into words.