Vulnerability

Our church e-publishes devotionals all year long.  During Advent and Lent, the devotionals are sent out daily.  The most recent one my husband wrote was about holding tightly onto something.  You can read it here.

Here is a line from the devotional:

What things in our lives are we holding to so tightly that we are unwilling to let go? Afraid to let go.

About the time his devotional was sent out to our devotional group, we talked in staff meeting about a woman who was exploring what it would feel like to assume a position of crucifixion -- not actual crucifixion, of course, but arms spread wide.  She lay in a field, her arms outstretched.  The only word she could use to describe it was "vulnerable."  She felt vulnerable.

It seems to me that someone, like Christ, in the position of a cross is vulnerable.  He could hang onto nothing.  He couldn't even hold onto his life. 

Love like that makes you vulnerable.