At the heart of the true cross is love, and only pure love, but what about pain and suffering? Many people believe that love hurts. This blogger has a contrary view. Love does not hurt, pride does.
Love is all about giving; pride is all about keeping. How can anything hurt when it is given away? Only when one does not give fully of one's love, when one gives it conditionally is when the giving of love hurts and hurts deeply.
Pride is loud, arrogant and aggressive but it is also sensitive, vulnerable and it hurts easily. Pure love is quiet, meek and is a force of calm and stillness, fearless and unconquerable.
When Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate and was crucified for the love of sinners, did He not feel pain? As the Son of God, He did not have to, but He took on human flesh and was willing to go all the way.
Christ's love for man was and is immeasurably greater than the pain man can inflict upon Him. His pain, this blogger surmises, was to a degree dampened by His unconditional love because no man, however strong, would be able to endure such intense and relentless pain, hunger and thirst for so many hours without having a temporary loss of consciousness. Christ remained conscious at all times during His Passion until His final breath.
So does love really not hurt? No, Christ did not hurt one bit in the giving of His love; it was sin and evil that inflicted pain and suffering upon His Holy flesh. The same sin and evil also caused the Mother of God unquantifiable anguish and sorrow to see Her Son through His Passion.
Therefore, at the heart of the physical cross Christ bore and the invisible cross His Mother bore is love, pure love.
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