{"id":3117,"date":"2011-06-25T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2015-01-18T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T22:21:16","slug":"prelude-to-deeper-life-vulnerabilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/sole-significance\/prelude-to-deeper-life-vulnerabilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140\" height=\"158\" src=\"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blowdandy-300x198.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"blowdandy\" width=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blowdandy-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blowdandy.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>From my personal blog: LivingLoved-blog.com<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI find myself continuing to reflect on vulnerability.&nbsp; Earlier this week I asked some friends for their thoughts about what vulnerability is and these are a few of their responses:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tleaving your emotional\/physical\/mental well being open to growth as well as pain\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDropping your protective walls&hellip; leaving oneself open to attack, or other experiences, good or bad&hellip;\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tquote by Madelaine L&rsquo;Engle has spoken to me in the past simply because this is how I felt as I moved from childhood to adulthood, &ldquo;When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability&hellip;to be alive is to be vulnerable.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\twhen I think of the word vulnerability a few things come to mind, &ldquo;weakness&rdquo;, &ldquo;exposure&rdquo;, &ldquo;fragility&rdquo; but also &ldquo;openness&rdquo;, &ldquo;faith&rdquo; and &ldquo;trust.&rdquo; I also think of the Gaelic idiom, &ldquo;Eadar dh&agrave; lionn&rdquo; which trans&hellip;lates literally as &ldquo;between two waters&rdquo;\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tI think these folks and others have captured what I was trying to say in Deeper life: Vulnerability and that is pain really is unavoidable but we as a culture have so very little tolerance for pain that we seek to avoid it at all costs.&nbsp; In doing so, we seek to sooth our pain with whatever is available: food, drugs, medication, retail therapy, sex, performance, busy-ness , hiding behind false identities &ndash; you get the point.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe net result is not life at all, but a numb isolation which may leave us relatively secure from discomfort but results in crippling loneliness only engaging with others, ourselves and God superficially.&nbsp; Many are often left wondering that why in the most connected generation (twitter, facebook, etc) is the most frequent cry of the people I have opportunity to serve a profound sense of loneliness?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI am not some kind of sadist who thinks we should look for opportunities to be hurt.&nbsp; What I do think is <strong>we should not shrink back from meaningful opportunities for healthy relationships for fear that we might get hurt<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>To life!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From my personal blog: LivingLoved-blog.com I find myself continuing to reflect on vulnerability.&nbsp; Earlier this week I asked some friends for their thoughts about what vulnerability is and these are a few of their responses: leaving your emotional\/physical\/mental well being open to growth as well as pain Dropping your protective walls&hellip; leaving oneself open to&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[142,143,255,396,539],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sole-significance","category-soul-significance","tag-deeper-life","tag-deeper-relationships","tag-heart-break","tag-pain-in-life","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}