VULNERABLE

I grew up in a cul-de-sac with a bunch of boys running through the neighborhood.   We played down by the creek that ran behind a couple of houses.  It was where wars were waged, ropes were swung on, bridges became diving boards and our pool was the largest area of the creek, where you could get in up to your waist.  I remember always being a little hesitant at getting fully in.  Don’t know if it was the murky, muddy mix of water and Georgia clay or knowing that the boys I played with where sometimes not always to be trusted when it came to backyard ‘baptisms’!

It was a place of Vulnerability.

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Vulnerable

To truly love isn’t just the feeling of “falling”.  It is more the willingness to open oneself up to being VULNERABLE to another person.  To allow your heart and will to be affected by that person is something that can cause fear and trembling.  But it can also lead to something beyond the ability of words to communicate.  It can give way to Hope, to Belief, to well, Love.

There are risks. Yet anything of value, of worth comes with the knowledge of the inherent risks that it takes to trust another person.  But again, that VULNERABILITY succumbs to the realization that we weren’t meant to be alone here, and when you find that there is another who is just as Vulnerable, just as Passionate, just as Ready to find more in this life…

…you grab hold.  You jump – both feet into the water!