To love is to be vulnerable

Vulnerability in friendships is like letting a new kid into the playground. The rest are apprehensive to play with them at first; this is their turf, how could they possibly let someone in?

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"What will the new kid think once they discover the slide is broken and the swing creaks at its every move?" :/

 

The more they play together, the flaws of the playground are slowly revealed to the new child; the mere possibility of rejection is hard to contend with for the frequent kids.

For so long, the community of believers notion was something I was uncomfortable with, let alone confessing of sins to one another.Read more