worthy investment

I continue to marvel at the joy that comes from investing in others. We were definitely created to live in community, to care for one another, and to corporately enter God's throne of mercy. However, often the risk involved in relationships in scary. Alongside the joy is pain. Disappointment. Hurt. Even anger.
Yet still, we are called - command! - to love one another. It is good and right and true.

C.S. Lewis speaks to this as well.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. The Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis. New York: Inspirational Press, 1994, 278.