Great Love and Great Suffering

The forebodings of human experiences offer such dynamic apertures which serve as the opening and closing spaces between the person and oneself, between the person and the neighbors, and between the person and the Creator. In this sense of coherent connectivity, only the power of love and power of suffering are strong enough to break down human defenses and dispositions, to crush the daring dichotomized thinking, and to turn one’s gaze at the Mystery. Such an image of great love conceals as Jesus suffers and dies on the cross. Is loving a consequence of suffering? Or, is suffering a consequence of loving? There is no sense of duality through its Christian meaning. Most often than not, we take the one side of it, like “eating a pie attitude.” We take and enjoy a slice of it but fail to realize what it is like when the whole is taken. As the principle says: “a part cannot be greater than the whole.” Thus, love and suffering must be taken as a whole more than a piece of it. There is no duality between love and suffering, wholenessdo they offer