1 post tagged “vulernability”

Ho'okipa initiates when it is absent or withheld; and it reciprocates when received. What a blessing for a person who desperately needs gracious hospitality and generosity to find it in us. True Ho'okipa does not wait for it to be given, thus making it solely reciprocal. It seeks ways to initiate itself against all that is withdrawn and protective.

Of the giving the heart, C. S. Lewis writes:

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. To love is to be vulnerable.

Sincerely showing hospitality and generosity is to be vulnerable, too, but that is what Ho'okipa means.