Easter, Ascension. (There is evidence that He is Alive)
What is the fate, the trajectory of a life spent in faithfulness to a prophetic calling? The earthly outcome of Jesus - the faithful Son - would seem to be that of the failures of all times.
So is it worth being yourself? Would not it be more constructive to regulate oneself on the basis of personal convenience and group opportunism?
In short, with the Easter and Ascension of Jesus, what has changed?
People continue as before to travel or stay still, to buy and sell, to work or party, to rejoice or weep...
But as in a landscape characterized by fog, suddenly the sun rises and we see clean profiles, enjoying the brilliance of colors, even shades.
A sharper Vision, in the experience of Faith.
Easter celebrates precisely a joy: it is the feast of those who realize that defeats do not remain dark sides. They hide disproportionate Gems.
A full flowering remains of our passage. And it is not true that a destroyed or harassed existence is wasted or ends badly, leaving us orphans.
Rather, it sharpens listening and all perception. Thus we learn to welcome the reality of others and their-our unrepeatability.
We learn to dialogue with the raw reality and first of all with ourselves; so finally to honor God by respecting us in an integral way.
In Eastern icons, Passover is depicted as Descent to the Underworld: victory of the common woman and man [brought back to life].
Again in the icons, the Mystery of the Ascension is represented with two angels in white robes pointing out to the apostles the glorious nimbus of the Lord, seated on a throne.
As if to say: let’s contemplate where a life wasted according to men, but fulfilled according to the Father, has come.
Obeying our vocation uncompromisingly and wholly may seem imprudent, reckless. Instead, it is full self-respect, and leads us to our Homeland.
The nature of our fibres animated by the Inner Friend appeals not to social goals to be achieved, but to who we really are - and our profound Name unfolded in the path of Faith unfailingly accompanies us to the Cradle.
To allow oneself to be influenced and become external is to miss oneself and lose the Guide, ruining the completeness of being.
In spite of the apparent failure and reproaches that the personal and social unprecedented arouses, by listening to that unquenchable Fire that dwells within us, we realize life in an integral way.
If our attention is not on the scenery of what is happening around us, we can wince at the new awareness of an ongoing genesis of our personality and mission: a prototype and mode of ourselves that is mysteriously blossoming, and has value.
Unless we allow ourselves to be conditioned and overwhelmed by external interferences or calculations and circumstances around us, we sense that there is already a characterising track calling from the inside.
We intuit that we can be with ourselves and grow without foreclosures of unexpected, nor already commonly paradigmatic codes, because God expresses himself by creating renewed heavens within us and on earth.
Heaven: taking off without leaving. We are not alone. And the best is yet to Come.
P.S. Today, more than ever before, we are in the era of social showcases, which expose every aspect of history and news, even private ones.
When we value the aspect of the soul that communicates with the rinds of the achievements, we cut our heart off, or unbalance the mind with dominant thoughts, letting they be plagiarised by manipulators - even spiritual ones.
But the person who misplaces the Whole no longer follows the path that his Seed sings. It claims to express itself. Otherwise, we would proceed haphazardly or resort to clichés.
In short, we are not a judgement, an opinion, a crisis, a memory, but rather inventors of roads that tap into an ever springing Water.
Not to a well, nor to a swamp, where everything has already happened, but to a Source.
[Ascension of the Lord]
