The Lord wants new people, who Listen
[Lk 8:19-21]
In the life of those who are challenged by the relationship of Faith, to become blood relatives of the Father (according to the Spirit) is fundamental Perceive [in profound sense of Listening - not so much materially ‘seeing’].
It’s not worth the «staying outside», or wanting to ‘speak’ directly, to ‘convince’ the Lord (vv.19-21).
It is necessary to intuit and grasp: a path to encounter one’s own intimate layers of being, the truth of inclinations, and of life.
It’s decisive to welcome a satiating Word, which becomes language and culture, which has creative power: given to the ears and discovered inside. Captured in personal history and reality, and transmitted again.
To depart from this founding Core and Eros means detaching from oneself, dispersing oneself in rivulets that do not belong to us, failing into the void ["empty" not understood as a deep energetic state, which prepares new developments].
Paradoxically, both our Freedom and the Salvation of the world are the result of an Obedience - but not external, or others.
It is rather tuning in to the part of the Logos within us that is blooming; really "perfect". No conditioning model.
No a priori correction, nor forcing according to prejudice: rather, an eternal Metamorphosis - accompanied by the Verbum Domini, which mysteriously guides Exodus into Exodus.
No culturally configured expectation would lead to full communion with the great divine spark and fullness in each and every one.
Realisation of the Kingdom and every day - even outside of time.
To know Christ closely it’s not enough to look at him and be taken by sympathy, cultural ties, or religious emotion.
It is the Listening that connects and establishes intimate constraints which do not extinguish - a friendship of engaging harmony with the Master.
Around Jesus the Word of God creates a new Family, with bonds of spiritual kinship closer than what the clan attachment offered.
The Lord wants other people, born precisely from Perception-forebonding.
The union is no longer reserved and exclusive; it becomes accessible to anyone and in any condition - even if he/her were "blind" outside, unable to see what is at hand.
Each one is Church, the Father's House, and thus can realize God's Dream of living with men and walking beside them.
He dwells among us and in us. In his Word, without more ‘distances’.
In this way, all our actions must aim for this purpose: to form the Temple of God, his lineage, the Body of the living Christ.
To achieve this complete goal, essential means is to host the Vocation that transforms us, a much more permanent, sensitive and energetic foundation of any feeling, connection, or emotion.
Indispensable is not an (initial) experience of enthusiasm, but the custody of the Call that interprets life and becomes mentality, dynamism inside that leads [and flows into suburban paths].
There is yet other Temple to be built.
[Tuesday 25th wk. in O.T. September 24, 2024]
