“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
I chose to reflect on the Four Loves since it was a required text, according to the syllabus, but we didn't but touch on it in class, unless I missed something... Whoops. This might seem a bit like a diary entry, but I felt like, for my choice I would want to do something that is as little forced work as possible.
I had a conversation with a friend about how many engagements were happening in such a short amount of time. I made a comment about how marriage is scary. He asked me why and I didn't have an answer. He proceeded to tell me that it's scary to everyone. That's how it is because in marriage, a man and a woman literally get to know each other on a level that no one else will know either one of them. The good, the bad, and the ugly... but they still love each other. What a concept.
Considering the nerve-racking nature of marriage, lets move to the Bible's take on man's relationship with God-or, the intended relationship. There are multiple allusions to marriage when describing the nature of that divine relationship. If marriage is used in the Bible as a tangible, worldly visual to illustrate the relationship, how much deeper and further will the aspects of a marital relationship go when speaking in regards to the relationship with God?
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