From the inside and in domestic
(Lk 13:18-21)
The two parables were set forth at a time of doubt about the Master’s proposal and the mission of his intimates.
A small group of faithful without social connection, could say something to the world?
Despite the commitment, women and men are struggling in all their ancient problems; they feel the weight of suffering and anguish: at first glance everything looks the same (disconnected, chaotic, fragmentary).
What is the point of the small hope of a few believers without a flashy heritage, for the cultural and civic concert - today global?
It seems that in the reality of the cosmos nothing changes... but the Granule has been thrown into the furrow of the earth.
It seems that human pasta is the same as always, but a Yeast is renewing it all, from within.
Jesus was like a seed planted in darkness, nothing sensational. And thrown like in the vegetable garden of the house [v.19 Greek text].
However, the mustard bean has an incredible and intrinsic evolutionary force.
Of course, the moment of growth ends with a very simple tree - a shrub like many, subjected to the weather... yet able to give rest and shelter to anyone who passes (v.19).
Then it’s enough to put a pinch of yeast in the mass to make it completely ferment.
The yeast doesn’t stand out, it’s hidden: it disappears inside. And at that time everything was kept in a simple home bread chest.
Deepening life in the Spirit, we repeatedly realize that we have only seen in part: there is still much [more] to discover - in relation to the development of ordinary life.
Despite the megalomaniacs, the dimensions of the Kingdom of God, the universe of the soul, and the Mission, are not immediately and completely verifiable.
We have to enter a process, personal and all hidden - therefore authentically springy, convinced, and paradoxically wide open.
In fact, even «when the work is done, withdrawing is the Way of Heaven» [Tao Tê Ching, ix].
On the horizon of every journey there is always a new plant, another ‘genesis’, a different flowering in the time of the seasons; an unprecedented effervescence, to be introduced into the ancient arrangement already capitalized.
But seed and ferment work unknown.
Lack of spotlight, poor situation, smallness... are not obstacles to growth, but the condition.
What seems nothing becomes what Creation awaits.
It’s seen hardly or at all - but giving time without forcing and hastening, it gets the cordial and domestic evolution that doesn’t clash with God and the leasts.
To internalize and live the message:
What sensational cunning tried to destroy your land?
What conformity made you pale?
What subdued and calibrated Word on you has not produced hustle and bustle, but has regenerated your passion, and has expanded life?
[Tuesday 30th wk. in O.T. October 29, 2024]
