this is a message from your heart, your most devoted body part...taking blood and making art.

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—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable… The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers …of love, is Hell-- (C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves).


Wise and deep words written by one of the wisest men this world has ever known... I've read this book by Lewis before but re-reading this quote just made me realize that i've been wrapping my heart carefully around the busyness of life. not really listening or paying attention to what it's feeling or saying or leading me towards. It's been like this for a while, and i can't say it's not safe... i'm just afraid of its becoming hard when it should be vulnerable and attentive to the Lord's leading, at the same time I'm equally afraid of it being hurt.

Something's lost. But Something's gained in living, every day.

and if you care, don’t let them know… don’t give yourself away
I’ve looked at love from both sides now,
from give and take and still somehow
It’s love's illusions I recall, I really don’t know love… at all.


Joni Mitchell-- I don't think there are words to describe how deeply her voice speaks to the heart...