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.
Greek text of Lk does not speak of ‘merits’ [cf. Italian translation 1974] or even of ‘gratitude’ [It. translation 2008] but rather of «Gratuity» (vv. 31.33-34)!
Of course, it is 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.
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.
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.
"Win-or-lose" alternative is false: we have to get out of it.
Forgiveness ahead: do not mark boundaries
Exemplary Encounter and Life at the Unknown Climax
(Lk 6:36-38)
Is it possible to put the Gospel under exemplary «Measure» - eg. of Law (retributive) or of the First Testament and Tradition?
No, a Family would not be built. And the culmination of this kind of experience would be ethnic or elitist prerogative.
Configuration and proposal that would give birth everywhere to a gray, slavish, fragile world; incapable of dialogue, and unknown discoveries.
After feeling separated by a humanizing and divine quality of life, only the awareness of reconciliation can transform environments and persons.
Such is the living and actualized Jesus, in community.
He introduces his intimates into a new experience of fluid understanding, devoid of pride.
Without actually assuming affected or photocopied attitudes.
It’s then that Humility effortlessly floods us, bringing Charity to the summit - in the celestial setting of the Gratis that moves the gaze.
By suppressing and suppressing, the artifices inexorably close the joy of living.
They harness Happiness in "ways", in the endless accentuation of efforts - against themselves, and opposing the world of others.
Conventions, standard duties and reactions, never contain the benevolent, incisive energies of growth.
In the lives of Saints we see it: listening to oneself thoroughly, letting it be... and forgiveness, they increase love a hundredfold.
It becomes a source of incredible gestures in favor of one's neighbor; in the noticing accentuated, in the care, in the free hospitality, in the total and unrestricted gift.
There has always been a need for the contribution of new virtues and situations - even intimate ones - of their surprises.
Not discarding the nonsense of others… means having learned to welcome our own frailties and oppositions.
The world begins to change when we accept ourselves, in the experience of the God-with-us’ esteem.
Thus we learn to perceive Beauty, instead of aridity and detachment: what makes life more intense and at the same time sliding.
Even the knowledge of God is not an asset of confiscation or an acquired science, already internally and externally foreclosed.
It moves from one action to another, incessantly; takes place in an encounter that is always alive, which neither blocks nor dissolves us.
It’s the future world’s beginning; principle of an unpredictable adventure.
God's Newness that creates an environment of Grace - with enormous possibilities, bursting forth from diverse energies.
It bursts in to break up primates and stagnant balances.
It does so through an impossible opening of credit - with a lordship of qualities and perspectives - which regenerate and reactivate people, families, fraternities; the whole world.
Principle of Catholicity, understood as a wide field.
Pearls of the new Pastoral, helping not to mark borders.
Yeast dough. Not self-referential.
[7th Sunday in O.T. (year C), February 23, 2025]
