Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

The speaker frames emotional suffering not as a sign that love has failed, but as evidence of love’s power. When love cannot reach its intended object—through loss, rejection, separation, or death—it “backs up” into pain. The quote contrasts two responses: shutting down love to avoid hurt (a kind of self-protective numbness that diminishes the self), or redirecting love outward through faith, service, and new relationships. In this reading, prayer is not a denial of grief but a way to transform it, allowing love to continue moving rather than curdling into despair or bitterness.