Love hurts, even though the joys it generates are far greater.
If it does not hurt, it can be an intense emotion, a meaningful passionate bond, a companionship of convenience, but it is definitely not love.
Love hurts because it gives of itself, because it wants to serve and educate the loved one, even if the loved one is not pleased with what is offered.
Love hurts because, before censuring, it exposes the limitations e distortions or vices of feeling within oneself.
Love begins in friendship, expands into fraternity, overflows into parenthood, and sublimates itself in mercy.
However, in all its degrees and forms of manifestation, despite the profound satisfaction fostered by affective connection and the bonds of affinity, love, when authentic, inevitably hurts because it expresses a person’s truth, and the relative truth of one human being never completely coincides with the truth of another soul.
Meanwhile, Jesus revealed to the woman, full of guilt and invisible suffering, who washed His feet with her tears and dried them with her hair: “Your sins are forgiven, for you love much!…”
May every human being refine, deepen, expand and elevate their ways of loving, and they will inexorably find, in love, despite the pain of internal and external resistance to its purest expressions, the path to full personal fulfillment, because love is the Kingdom of Heaven… because Love is God!…
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
In the Name of Mary Christ
Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
March 31, 2017