Get ahead and Forgive forward
(Lk 6:27-38)
The adventure of extreme Faith is for a wounding Beauty and an abnormal, prominent Happiness. But only those who know to wait will find their way.
Not opposing the wicked allows one to experience the Beatitudes (Lk 6:20-26) - antidote to one-sided relationships; however, tolerating becomes impossible if we do not allow an innate Energy to develop.
The Greek text of Lk doesn’t speak of "merits" or even of "gratitude", but rather of «Gratuitousness» (vv. 31.33-34)! Of course, it’s not easy to understand the meaning of the Gift, of the Free.
Yet here the flowering will be without forcing, because in the infinitely repeated repaying there is no wisdom that reads inside; in the overthrow, yes.
The new experience of God is that of a genuine creative Love, which ceaselessly throws away, introduces new powers, and incredibly turns everything upside down.
It will not be the effort that will make us stay where the perfect Vocation wants us to dwell, but a correspondence - even in the swings.
Outside and within us there is another territory, where the affinity of waiting meets God's plan.
The spiral of returning the offense can occupy all of our space. Thus it dulls the ability to match the new ringing of the Call.
It takes away our perception, all the listening to the News of God which is in its infancy.
Generating all our confusions, the Salvation pales. History which vice versa is creating an unprecedented one: it’s cut at the root.
To grasp the very rhythm of God (which wisely creates), souls must wait the step of things, which mature in linear terms until they overturn or multiply - in an exclusive and unprecedented way.
The events themselves regenerate spontaneously, outside and even within us; useless to force. The growth and destination continues also thanks to the spring of mockery and external constraints.
Then, firmness in acceptance becomes the source of a new child - of an unexpected Genesis that is just intertwining its first roots with that swampy soil.
The suspension experienced in the Mystery opens our destiny of foolishness already decreed to trust in a new, unrepeatable Act of Being.
It opens up the unexpected Sense, in a climate of inventiveness that flies over the action-reaction instinct. This is so that the chain of normality doesn’t take over the prodigy.
Non-violence is therefore not a norm of mere delicacy, but rather a higher Arrow, which indicates a non-mechanical direction of Research, which advances from discovery to discovery.
Allowing everyone to pass on, creates the right detachment so that when we are ready, the time will come to realize: our mortification was a crossroads. It opened destiny to a less short hope, expanding life.
If others are not as we have dreamed of, it’s fortunate: the doors slammed in the face and their goad put us in contact with profound virtues, and with the resources that we have not yet given space to.
Betrayals, harassment, spite, revenge, outrage, mortification suffered... which would like to make us restless and dishearten... are preparing our development, and many other joys.
The "win-or-lose" alternative is false: we have to get out of it.
[Thursday 23rd wk. in O.T. September 12, 2024]
