We live in a time when love is often understood as an intense emotion, a spontaneous feeling, or an irresistible attraction. However, as Father Ángel Espinosa de los Monteros explains, true love goes far beyond that:  love is a project.

It’s not just about the encounter between two people or a deep emotional connection. All of that is beautiful and necessary, but not enough. Love requires planning, consistency, and commitment. In other words, it needs to be projected. The etymology itself confirms this:  project comes from the idea of ​​something thrown forward, something with a trajectory, purpose, and duration.

Love with the past, present, and future

Father Ángel invites us to contemplate love in three times:  yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

“Yesterday I prepared the love of today, and with the love of today I am preparing the love of tomorrow.”

Every day lived in fidelity and devotion has been a sowing that now bears fruit. If you’ve been married for 20, 30, or more years, it’s no coincidence: you’ve been building that love step by step, amid joys, trials, dreams, and disappointments. And with every daily gesture of love, you are preparing for the future.

Love as capital to be invested

Just as many worry about purchasing health or life insurance, we should also ask ourselves:  How am I investing in my love today for the future?
Perhaps in 30 years, you won’t see or hear as well. Perhaps your health will fail. What emotional and spiritual resources will you have to face that moment?

That’s why it’s necessary to begin “saving” a capital of affection, understanding, and service today. The more you love today, the more you sow, the more you will secure the next point of arrival. Because today’s love is a destination, yes, but also a starting point for everything to come.

Love in maturity

The coming years, far from being more difficult, may be the best: years of maturity, of reunion, of greater conversation, when the children have left and the nest is empty. But all of this will only be possible if today, here and now, we continue working with love for this common project.

Love is a project.
Not a play on words, but a profound reality. A journey that begins with courtship, continues through marriage, and projects itself, with hope, into the future.

Let us do all the good we can.
And may God bless us always.