THE PRICE OF LOVE

“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, and irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. ” ?C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
To assume that love is costless is to be very naïve. Love pays…but it also costs and costs a great deal. The love we speak of is not very sentimental… but is extremely passionate and realistic. It costs everything to really love… and the cost is floated back to each of us personally and deeply.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” Jesus