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Irredeemable

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by braddahr in Inspiration, Observations, relationships

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Love, valentines, vulnerable

In honour of Valentines Day, I want to share a CS Lewis quote. I find this insight to be a good reminder of why love is worth risking.

I hope you are able to extend and receive love this week.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything & your heart will certainly be wrung & possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one…but in that casket it will change. It will become unbreakable, irredeemable.”

Becoming Other

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by braddahr in Inspiration, Observations, Spirituality

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compassion, empathy, Love, pity, tears, vulnerable

I came across this the other day and it just grabbed my heart.

“Compassion means to become close to the one who suffers. But we can come close to another person only when we are willing to become vulnerable ourselves. A compassionate person says: ‘I am your brother; I am your sister; I am human, fragile, and mortal, just like you. I am not scandalized by your tears, nor afraid of your pain. I too have wept. I too have felt pain.’ We can be with the other only when the other ceases to be other and becomes like us.

This, perhaps, is the main reason that we sometimes find it easier to show pity without compassion. The suffering person calls us to become aware of our own suffering. How can I respond to someone’s loneliness unless I am in touch with my own experience of loneliness? How can I be close to handicapped people when I refuse to acknowledge my own handicaps? How can I be with the poor when I am unwilling to confess my own poverty?” – Henri Nouwen

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Just Being Present 

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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“If you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability and deep fear and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who has done her work and who does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I will show you a guy who’s done his work and a man who doesn’t derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.” ~ Brené Brown

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