Healing Power of Tears

“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

The greatest opportunity for intimacy and authentic love is given to us through our family. And yet, we often miss it, filling our lives with busy-ess and distraction from those gifts that are in front of us – our children. We work hard ‘for’ them, to provide for them, to keep them safe, but often miss the opportunity for genuine interaction.

Family is the place we, as children, can learn that we are loved – no matter what. Through our successes and failings, we will always be picked up, dusted off and sent on our journey by loving, caring parents. This is not, however, always our experience. Children often grow up with emotional wounds and are looking for ways to heal them.

Don't follow the crowd...

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”

“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.