Love is opening up to someone, letting them change you. Lewis talks about this in many different places throughout his books. In his Chronicles Edmund cannot change unless he has changed. This does not mean that he just makes a conscience effort to change, but he has to open up and allow Aslan to change him. This is the essence of what it means to live like Christ, we must open ourselves up to Christ and only with him and through him will we start to change. Lewis shows how this relationship is similar to those relationships with our friends, in order to grow in those relationships we must open ourselves up to them. As long as we dont get stuck in your own pride and understand that pain is necessary to realize we are stuck and instead of going further the other direction and hiding ourselves, we open up to the good and the bad and allow the community to move to change to grow in us.
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