The fact, which occurred in an emergency room, attracted the attention of the academics on duty on that cold Saturday.

It was sunset when the couple arrived with a boy wrapped in a blanket.

Father and mother were terrified and the father kept saying: He was burned. He got burned.

What surprised the young people was that the boy seemed fine. He answered, serenely, saying his name. And this reassured the on-duty staff.

However, when the boy was placed on the stretcher, the blanket was removed, they saw, appalled, the great damage.

He had sat on the hot stove top and had severe burns on his buttocks and on the posterior part of his thighs. It was something for the injured person to be screaming or to faint.

However, it is as if nothing had happened. He was taken to the Surgical Center to remove the dead tissue, among other measures.

It was evident that, posteriorly, he would need a skin transplant.

Intrigued, the academics listened to the explanation of the experienced teacher: What you witnessed is a rare case of Ryley-Day Syndrome.

A genetic abnormality that affects sensory neurons.

And he concluded: He does not feel pain and this is his misfortune.

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Considering the fact, we remember the spiritual orientations that affirm that pain is a blessing that God sends to His elected ones: do not grieve, therefore, when you suffer.

Rather, praise Almighty God who, through pain in this world, has marked you for the glory of heaven.

This leads us to understand why not feeling physical pain is a misfortune, not a benefit.

The boy sat on a hot stove top and, because he felt nothing, he suffered third-degree burns, which marked his body forever.

Feeling the pain of a thorn that hurts our skin, a nail that penetrates our foot, the ember that burns us, makes us quickly move away from danger.

And since physical pain is a warning and causes an immediate reaction, the emotional pains that afflicts us inform us that something is not right with us.

Anguish, sadness, anger are warning signs.

The constant frustration with work, with the profession, should make us think about remedying what makes us unhappy, hurts us so much, because it will soon result in physical problems.

When sadness goes beyond sporadic limits, remaining as a constant companion, it tells us that we must investigate the cause in order to drive it away.

We cannot pretend that pain does not exist. We cannot sweep under the rug what hurts us, every day, every hour.

If pain reaches us when someone departs for the beyond and leaves an empty place at the table, we have the right to cry, to feel the absence. The right to live the period of grief.

But not for the entirety of our lives.

The blessing of pain shall encourage us to seek help, whether from the faith we embrace or from professional therapists, arms of God on the face of the Earth.

Blessed physical pain that leads us to try to get rid of it. Blessed emotional pain that reminds us that our great commitment, on this Earth, is to live.

Live to progress. To fight. To love. To move forward.

Spiritist Moment Team, based on the article Um ensaio sobre a dor,
 by Eugenio Mussak, from the magazine Vida Simples, edition 162,
September 2015, April ed. and on chapter IX, item 7, of the book
 O Evangelho segundo o Espiritismo, by Allan Kardec, ed. FEB.
April 25.2025