60-second Questions are mini-voyages in self-discovery. They invite you to take just 60 seconds to ponder a question that may offer new insights into yourself, God and the world around us.
Here’s today’s question, set up by CS Lewis.
“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, The Four Loves
Your 60-second question: how vulnerable or ‘breakable’ is your heart?
- If you are currently not being loved (or loving others) as you might wish, what needs to change?
- From whom do you lock away your heart so that it will not be broken?
- To whom do you risk giving away your heart too readily?
- How does the prayer “God, break my heart with the things that break your heart” add insight into a God who is love?
