Vulnerable Love

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.
—C.S. Lewis

What I find most amazing about the Incarnation is that in becoming man in Jesus Christ, God became so vulnerable. Rejection was not only possible, but virtually assured. God could have come and lived and loved among us and the world could have never returned that love. Once God became man, Good Friday was a given. Yet God loved us enough to go through Good Friday to bring us all to the light of Easter.

This week, we begin the annual journey of Lent. We offer a brochure in PDF format: Keeping a Holy Lent. The booklet will give you some background on this season of preparation for Easter as well as giving you some ideas about how you might mark the season this year.

For those here at King of Peace, we will have a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper tomorrow at 6 p.m. and the Ash Wednesday liturgy is the following day at 7 p.m. I'll see y'all there as we begin this journey together.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor