Which road leads to the Father?
(Lk 11:29-32)
Human correspondence does not grow with the multiplication of dizzying signals. God doesn’t force the unconvinced, nor outclass with proofs; thus He earns a patrimony of love.
His authentic Church, without clamor or persuasive positions - apparently insignificant - is gathered entirely in intimate unity with her Lord.
The Queen of the South was looking for captivating solutions to enigmatic curiosities, but she could know them inside her soul and life.
Incarnation: there are no other valid signs than the events and new relationships with oneself and others - which offer the very and unheard-of Person of the Risen One, without wrappings.
The Eternal is no longer the pure transcendence of the Jews, nor the summit of the wisdom of the ancient world: the moving Sign of God is the story of Jesus alive in us.
We trust in Christ, so no more spiritual drugs that deceive us about happiness.
It’s the meaning of the new Creation: abandonment to the Spirit, but all concrete (not in a manner) and which proceeds by dragging the alternative reality.
He is the Sign unique, who frees from the many substitutes of fears’ religion, of fetters, of consolidated roles that would like to imprison the Lord in an "ally" doer of seductive miracles, immediately resolving.
Some community members seemed to want to frame the Messiah into the pattern of normal sacred and scenic expectations.
They were already getting along with the world, starting to recede, and were proving fed up...
In these "veterans" of Lk there was no sign of conversion to the idea of the Son of God as a Servant, confident in dreams without prestige.
In them? No trace of a new idea - nor change of pace that could mark the end of the blatant, dehumanizing society they were used to.
There are always those who remain tied to an ideology of power. So they don't want to open their eyes except to have their senses captured in a trivial way.
For these, the Lord never reserves impressive confirmations - which would be the paradoxical validation of ancient convictions.
The only «sign» is his living Church and the Risen himself pulsating in all those who take him seriously; eg. in recoveries, healings, and impossible revaluations.
But no shortcut lightning.
Guided by the intimate Friend, we will be a single inventive humanity ‘in the Master’.
Our free and life-giving testimony will re-nourish an experience of regenerating Faith, singularly incisive.
Far more than miracles, the appeals of our essence and reality will make us recognize the call and action of God in men and in the web of history.
The Father wants his sons to produce far more astonishment and prodigies of divine-human goodness than visions and sentimentality, or magic.
The only «sign» of salvation is Christ in us, without hysterical seams; image and likeness of the new humanity.
For authentic ‘conversion’: native power - and nothing external.
[Monday 28th wk. in O.T. October 14, 2024]
