"Vulnerability is a measure of our capacity to be wounded, which, in turn, measures our capacity to love. The fortress that is invulnerable is safe but cold, and the life within it, cut off from the outside world, cannot be sustained. But being made vulnerable against your will is invasion, violence, abuse. Part of following in Jesus' path is choosing the wounds that will come with love lived out in the world. Empowered vulnerability, as Flora Slosson Wuellner calls it, is choosing love's risks. This is the vulnerability of dying with Christ and rising through him, because the power of love is stronger than the power of death."
Just something for you all to chew on...my mind has been grinding away on this one, trying to swallow it. Vulnerability is a tough thing for me sometimes...harder lately, but I know it's soo necessary in our lives. I was thinking about how vulnerable Jesus was when He wept. I have read that story so many times lately because I love that about Him. He was so human...yet completely God at the same time.
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