Casual Incarnation, in tenuality and density
(Mt 1:1-17)
In order to reach the fullness of the Son, God did not claim to overcome concrete events, and vice versa He assumed and valued them.
In history, the Eternal manages to give wings not so much to strength and genius, but to all the poor origins, to the smallness of our nature, which suddenly turns into totally unpredictable wealth.
If we constantly tear the wire, the Lord reannounts it - not to fix and resume as before, but to redo an entire new plot.
Right from the existential falls.
It is those earthy moments that force humanity to change direction 'symbol’ - and not repeat itself, stagnating.
As a result of inner crashes and rethinking, how many people have realized their destiny, diverting the path traced, quiet, protected and comfortable [Cottolengo, mother Teresa, so on]!
From the mud of the swamp, sprout that beautiful and clean flowers which do not even resemble those that in the various stages of life we had ever imagined we could reach.
The tumbles of the protagonists of the history of salvation did not come out of weakness. They were signs of a bad or partial use of resources; stimuli to change the eye, re-evaluate the point of view and many hopes.
Those collapses have configured new challenges: they have been interpreted as strong provocations: to shift energies and change track.
The Ascents resulting from the declines have turned into new opportunities. Instead, ready-made solutions turn off personality traits.
Even our crisis becomes serious only when failures do not lead to new knowledge and different paths.
Strange this bond between our abysses and the apexes of the Spirit: it is the Incarnation, no theory - all reality.
There is no Gift that resembles us at the divine top and that reaches us without passing and involving the finitude dimension.
The holes in the water convey the all-human figure of who we are. And right there we grasp the great Father Secret on us.
It’s the paradoxical "descents" that spiritualize us; through a work of the soul that is rammed by events, so that it moves its gaze, changes destiny.
And tends to acquire new awareness, internalizes different evaluations, sees and embraces other varied horizons, even missionary.
In such a way, the crack that throws you down can be more consistent than any progress; not because it initiates an ascesis: it becomes contact with the "earth" - where you find the sap that really corresponds to you, to regenerate.
The decline or even the ruin of a reassuring status has in every occurrence a propulsive, regenerative, transmutative function.
Normal, after all, and in which the God’s history totally recognizes itself.
To internalize and live the message:
What were your turning points?
What deviation made your life realize?
[Weekday Liturgy, December 17]
