hand in hand And if it was all a joke? And if it was all a joke?
Faced with so many hardships, so many contradictions, behind closed doors and broken hearts, tears unstoppable, inexplicable hatred sometimes one wonders what sense to keep hoping for a better tomorrow.
... and then you open your eyes. And you can see the spectacle of a forest covered with a layer of snow is not too heavy, but thick enough to give it a new look, new, other than the day before. And then, turned his eyes, friends, brothers, kneeling to pray to the Lord, the source of a love so great that only the world could be the recipient. And the memory runs at a lot of friends met to date, carefree childhood years anxious and troubled adolescence, the initial commitments of youth to the time of important choices, the ability to change lives. And a more recent past is powerfully breaking into this really shows how these suggestions are not only themselves, but an indelible mark that, with different shapes and colors, they continue to recur in the furrows of a life that proceeds insatiable: the children with you played in oratory, boys and girls rather than a teacher of life needed a confidant, someone to talk without being judged that this meant, without having anything to lose, simply because, without being pretentious, he was there to listen, the adults with whom they shared concerns and emotions, expectations and disappointments, hopes and disappointments, the crowded areas, the empty seats they wanted someone to fill the coffers at rest before continuing to spread throughout the world music sometimes too tedious and sometimes too loud, but always exciting. But there is time to conclude these thoughts, the memories of a time just past turn into projects on a future that is still present (or on a future that is already?), But relying on the solid foundation of the past.
How can we explain this? Ask the trees, as we are born where they do not choose differently, but we can not decide where to go on living, intended to adapt to cold or hot and frustrating take my hope to even the most incurable optimist, just ask those who decide to give themselves in love with life and do it for ever, without too many calculations, simply by the desire to love and to be realized in this way, compared to a world of calculations and reasoning for which the important thing is not binding, never compromising too, live in the absence of ties; ask all men and women who are not afraid to risk their lives in defense of those who love: friends, children, sometimes unknown, poor, homeless, the persecuted, the sick, victims of war, helpless children, abandoned women, men and women without hope ...
Why write a blog? Why I do not know what to do? Not really ... because as a wise person once said "writing helps to objectify their feelings, to translate them into words and see them in front, more tangible and less ethereal, not to confuse ...." And (why not?) Perhaps because, unpretentious, maybe someone from these poor lines could draw some interesting food for thought. I do not pursue any rule, but to give free rein to thoughts and feelings, the extent and in the form in which they emerge. I do not schedule to be maintained (in life there are already enough and far more important) or topics to be considered: just a blog, what is when.
Starting today, December 25, Christmas Day, to commemorate another great start, much more important than the beginning of all history: the beginning of Jesus' life! That life has changed so many lives, many people were left marked and were not afraid to acknowledge it. Thanks to these other people have been able to benefit, to live our lives, rewrite their future. It is an important beginning, as the first thunder that marks the end of the drought or the first staple and announces to the children eager to enjoy the start of a heavy snowfall, it is the first applause at the end of a show, the first tears of those who welcomes the person loved one back from a long journey, it is the first cry of a newborn baby and the first glimpse of a boy just out of his coma, is the first word spoken by a child and the first drop that is detached from the glacier that finally returns to melt and feed the river course. It is the beginning of man, a child who is a man in power, but not a man like any other: the real man, the real one, man-love, the man The man that God answers our question: and if it was all a joke? It can not be : love is not a joke!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
A Bethlehem God was born as a man and was God, not losing its greatness, but rather to reveal its most sublime prerogative: the infinite love. "For us and for our salvation became incarnate from the Virgin Mary and became man." Made man has revealed that the greatness of our genre created. The man is measured by what we can become. It can not become angels, why would cease to be a man. Nor can drop to animal life and preserve his dignity. On the contrary, the incarnation of the Son of God shows us that man can become god and man remain.
Tomas Spidlik SJ