Be Vulnerable
“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” – 1 John 2:16 If you want to connect deeply with people, you have to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable means to allow yourself to be seen deeply. Deeply. Allow people to see all the stuff in your life that you’ve been hiding: all your shame, all your fears, all your dreams, all your goals, all your desires, all your wants, and all your needs. Allow the people who are closest in your life to just see you as you are — no masks and no pretending. But when you do that, you always think you’re going to push people away. And sometimes you do, but most of the time when you do that, people don’t feel farther from you, they feel closer to
