Being vulnerable doesn't mean you're open to being hurt.
How does it NOT???
Vunerable implies you need to have defenses in place. We defend weak places so we don't get hurt. You can't hurt me if I am secure in my heart about who I am, how much I love myself, and that I will allow you to see into me with no expectations. It's pushing to being self-less in love. It's being transparent and real. I am happy just the way I am and you can't say or do anything to move me off center. I realize that I'm human and it might sting and you can heighten my happiness but it's all my responsibility in the end. I am complete by myself. "You do the world no good living small." All I have to give is me, if I give of myself that makes me vunerable but if done out of love then it's solid. A concept I heard as a kid but just starting to understand- God is Love. So if I have a choice, I choose to be loving and give of myself. So the gift of being vunerable, open, and loving is riskless.
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
