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In that moment, what would you have given to take away your pain? Would you have been willing to forgo your ability to feel, in order to not feel this pain?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once we know how much it hurts to grieve or suffer shame and loss, we might be willing to give away our hearts, to close ourselves to all emotion, rather than risk feeling heartbreak again. A<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability\/transcript?language=en#t-1197379\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s researcher Brene Brown says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cwhen you ask people about love, they\u2019ll tell you about heartbreak.\u201d We cannot escape the fact that sometimes love leads to heartbreak and loss. One of the ways we deal with this vulnerability is that we numb it. In Ezekiel\u2019s language, we try to trade our vulnerable hearts of flesh for a heart of stone, hard and unbreakable. If our heart cannot be hurt, we cannot be hurt. Stone is impervious, much harder to break than flesh, so we try to numb or harden our hearts to mitigate our risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, as Brown cautions, we cannot selectively numb emotion. When we try to hide ourselves from pain and loss and shame, we also numb our ability to feel joy and love. The hard-heartedness of this chapter of Ezekiel is born of the Israelites\u2019 unwillingness to be vulnerable enough to risk suffering. They try to convince themselves of their own security, to tell themselves that they have what they need. But in doing so, they harden their hearts and turn a blind eye to suffering\u2026 and they lose out on the opportunity to experience redemption. The sinners of Israel are the ones who cannot allow themselves to be brave and vulnerable. They eschew temporary pain, but it will only bring them long term suffering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we fulfill the vision of Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy in verse 19, and we swap our hearts of stone for hearts of flesh. It is an act of tremendous courage, and in Brown\u2019s words, courage means to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart, to be willing to be imperfect and to suffer. The replacement of our heart of stone with a heart of flesh does not pretend to protect us. We will not be safer, or necessarily even happier if we allow ourselves to be vulnerable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, we will be more human. 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