A Mind Awake

I recently worked my way through an anthology of C.S. Lewis entitled, A Mind Awake. Lewis is the elder statesman of much of current evangelical thought on life, faith, and doctrine. Curiously, Lewis was not a theologian by training so he doesn't get everything right in my opinion, but he offers so much wisdom and depth and insight into a life that is lived in the light of the risen Savior.

Two excerpts I want to share with you on the matter of love...

You cannot love a fellow-creature fully until you love God.  The Great Divorce

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 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.
The Four Loves