Captivating

my sunday night small group is going through the book Captivating. the last chapter had a quote by Frederick Buechner from The Sacred Journey that caught my attention:

"The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life against being opened up and transformed."

how true. there are so many things in life that i try to protect myself from so i dont get hurt, but in reality im just stopping myself from letting God do his part.