A PlayFull life is a life that risks, a life of vulnerability.
C.S. Lewis describes the alternative—and it ain’t pretty. Live playfully, friends!
“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...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 alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy,
is damnation. The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from
all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.” -from The Four Loves*
Play from the inside-out. We invite you to like PlayFull on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Thank you
for reading.
*This quote was
included in Plough’s
Daily Dig; May 5, 2016.
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