Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.