No Safe Investments
I read the following quote on Sandra's Site today...

There is no safe investment.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything and your heart will certainly
be wrung and possibly be broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact ,
you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and
little luxuries; avoid all entanglements;
Lock it up safe in a casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, motionless, airless it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable irredeemable.

--C.S.Lewis