Brethren all and ourselves
(Lk 11:27-28)
In ancient mentality, the joy of the mother was the full-blown greatness of the son.
Jesus contests that the authenticity of Bliss may be linked to relations of clans and physical kinship, or to social clamour.
The Lord dismantles every outward appearance. He rejects this crude way of conceiving the fortune of life.
Full Happiness depends on the perception of one’s essential roots, and the precious uniqueness that we are - it does not come to us by social tracing, or by the type of belonging that has always been.
It’s precisely here that the Word of God introduces us into the understanding of the unrepeatable reason why we were born, and drags us in an integral energetic way; making us new every day.
The Word lives in our Eternal side; it is beyond time, and it seems to make us become strangers. Yet it’s not a disharmonious rival.
As we travel to the Goal we do not know, we advance with it. Without definitions first.
Thus the brothers; each in the unfolded and original Word, for growth. Without judgments first.
Sacred Scripture is the key to reading the facts; an Event that crosses us, and at the same time a sort of genetic code.
Intuition and nose for things that allows everyone to relive Christ in a serene and trusting way, despite any worn-out sides of the personality.
Every joy of human relations in the home thus becomes a platform for our leap towards the wider human Family. A wonder.
In this Exodus, particular affections are gradually integrated by discoveries, by an unexpected mission, by the qualitative life of universal sharing.
«Blessed rather are those who listen to the Word of God and guard [it]» (v.28).
Mary generated the Messiah, but - even more - she made the Word uncommon Person.
His true title of glory - what matters about Her - is to have been able to accept the proposal of a path of growth that has rewritten all expectations and history.
In their processes, the secret life with God and the codes of the soul acquire breath and enjoy the loss of already recognized advantages.
In this way, even in devotion to the Mother of God, we want to recognize the value of a journey in progress.
The ability to field unusual sides, distinct characters; make room inside, then generate them, and feed them.
Often, in fact, costumes or fixed beliefs do not unlock difficult situations, nor allow to activate transformational turns.
They become slipknot laces.
Conversely, the Way of Exodus in the Lord gives an experience of discovery, and revival of virtues to which we have not yet given complete flowering.
Just like for the Mother: in integral Joy, not through quietisms - nor with rivalries that distance us away from brothers all and from ourselves.
[Saturday 27th wk. in O.T. October 12, 2024]
