Ensemble nous pouvons - Together we can

C. S. Lewis says it well: "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 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, and irredeemable. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell." Mother Teresa said, "Love, to be real must cost! It must hurt! It must empty us of self!"

The words of King David reveal the essence of love and forgiveness: "But King David answered, "No, I must pay the full price. I won't take anything that is yours and give it to the Lord. I won't give an offering that costs me nothing" 1 Chronicles 21:24 (ICB).