“I Need!” … A Gift of the Lover
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©2013 Courtesy of Georgeanne Judd
from the forthcoming book by Marc Gafni,
Dance of Tears
All of these passages are rooted in the lovers model of relation between the person or the people and God. The key gift the lover gives to the beloved is to need the beloved. And the converse. The gift of the beloved to the lover is to allow herself to need her lover. And of course the roles of lover and beloved are forever interchanging between the partners. This is the great gift of love for it fills the most basic and essential need of the human being; the need to be needed.
