A friend of C.S. Lewis's was once asked, "is it easy to love God?" and he replied, "It is easy to those who do it."
"Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly 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." - Lewis
with joy, with fear and trembling, love. It is both the "greatest of these" and the divine calling of humanity.
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