Full dedication, but for a our own’s crossing
(Mt 8:18-22)
Continuing to venerate certainties, points of reference and habits, one can only manage a world of the dead (v.22).
Whoever welcomes Christ opens himself to a Newness - splendid but risky - that he doesn’t know.
The believer must take into account that we are all called to make strenuous crossings to other shores (v.18), compared to the usual.
To overcome this insecurity and the natural fear, initial enthusiasm is not enough.
In view of the difficult moments of evangelization, it is good that the son of God understands his forces or inclinations - and whether they are able to lead him to the point of transgressing even indispensable bonds (v.21).
Not for effort and "resilience". In this way we do not waste attention and energy to sustain things that have no future (v.22).
From the earliest times the Risen One was not identified as a simple model of deprivation and humiliation, to be "imitated".
The Lord was a non-external Motive and an (all intimate) Engine of new life. That’s the point.
Religions teach only one "matter": the story and style of the Founder, which makes you learn beautiful "notions" and heroic deeds.
In the spirituality of the Passage in Christ to other shores [v.18] one can only be in synergy with the Source that gushes inside.
Growth will be faithful to its own Seed. Flowering will be commesurate on the Roots and flow of the Sap, not on the protrusion of the leaves.
In the adventure of Faith our Core generates us and leads us to introduce in the relationship with ourselves, with others and things, in the most different way.
Love is spontaneous and risky; it never has the outline of the standard mechanisms.
In following the Lord there is sobriety, yet pre-established schemes are lacking. As in Friendship: it too is "unsafe", but there is a Source.
It's the unprecedented personal that in the labours continues to convey creative Joy - and makes us take to the field, to remain qualitative and profound.
Lack of imposed tracks teaches the Road of spontaneity that opens stunning breaches.
Nature itself recovers the opposites and sides in half-light, or dim, considered superfluous.
Here we draw on the genuineness of our particular essence, in an uncontaminated way from cerebral or customary taboos.
Discovering it more faceted than we thought.
Moving away from obvious judgments (and from getting along with the mannerisms around) we are introduced to the green light of independence and vocational wealth.
Under the action of the Spirit, it will be precisely in real danger that everyone will finally access the ‘mystical dimension of the Following’.
What if we continue to feel the vertigo of the continuous crossings - of a task too great for such an inferior «me», incapable of constant performances, recognized?
But right here, without scaffolding, personally meeting the Lord, we have already perceived and felt with our whole being his subtle Appeal:
«I don’t abandon yourself; you, don’t leave yourself: Me in you».
[Monday 13th wk. in O.T. July 1, 2024]
