REDEEMED.

“It is quite striking that virtually all the basic words describing salvation in the Bible imply a return to an originally good state or situation. Redemption is a good example. To redeem is to “buy free,” literally to “buy back.” … The point of redemption is to free the prisoner from bondage, to give back the freedom he or she once enjoyed.” – Albert Wolters

LOVE.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly 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 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, irredeemable.”

— C.S. Lewis