(Jn 1:19-28)
The Father’s heart is beyond divisive and purist expectations, which even the Baptizer considered indisputable and inculcated in his pupils.
God works only in favor of life: his actions are all positive - humanizing, recovery - not rejection.
‘Being’ is accentuated and rejoices only when the resources of each are discovered, welcomed, valued; not "repaired".
Traditional religions exorcise negative emotions, imperfection; they abhor the limit. They want relationships, things and souls always settled.
The Father, on the other hand, desires to bring life and blossom; therefore, He’s not always full of opinions.
He draws wonders that will make a sensation, right from the dark sides; transformed into sources of new magic.
Jesus knew the existential scarcity of all us: the needs, the growth; like every man. And he lived in himself and understood the value of exploration.
Instead of getting "tweaked" and reformed, the new Rabbi himself performed a non-conformist Exodus, which enriched him.
He too had to correct the initial path [as a disciple of John (v.27a) along with those who later became first Apostles] and change his mind: added value, not impurity.
He has done everything as we do, without unilateral attitudes; that is why we can truly recognise ourselves in Christ, in his Word, and in his very lovable story.
And recognize him as the Bridegroom of the soul (v.27b).
It’s such uniting dignity that involves in Love. We are not called to be strong regardless.
In his all-human Quest, Jesus has gradually understood that Father’s own Intimate Life is offered as Gift - a Surprise in our favour: impossible to coin it tailored to prejudices [ancient, or following the latest fashion].
The Most High displaces us all the time, and in no way follows established opinions, or mannerisms.
Happiness is out of sterile mechanisms that design the smallest details. It is rather Alliance with the shadow side, which nevertheless belongs to us.
Sacred Covenant that transmits completeness of being: perception-threshold of the Joy.
In short, we are immersed in a Mystery of Gratuity and vital amazement that goes beyond normalized growth, under conditions.
Procedures of others. Cassian and finally also Thomas Aquinas would perhaps have classified them with the title of ‘spiritual vices’, as expressions derived from «fornicatio mentis» [et corporis].
While the Baptist and all the earnest tradition imagined having to ‘prepare’ so much for the coming of the Kingdom, Jesus instead proposed to ‘welcome’ it: the only possibility of Perfection and fruitful Youth.
We no longer exist in function of God - as in religions that always and everything dispose - but we live of Him, with astonishment and in an unrepeatable way.
It is the end of unnatural models - for “held back” schoolchildren.
For us who are uncertain, inadequate, incapable of miracles - How reassuring!
Wealth is not outside of us.
[St. Basil and Gregory, January 2]
