To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be 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 … The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers … of love is Hell.
– C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis knew something about the emotion given to us called love. In order to handle it properly, one must open the manual given to us by the Creator.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Used properly, love is a friend and not an enemy. Give it some thought.
Gary