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We share the eternal side, and the displacement

Incarnation: raw life is filled with powers

 

(Jn 1:1-18)

 

According to ancient cultures, Logos-Sarx is a bold and impossible juxtaposition. Yet it marks the difference between religiosity and Faith.

Incarnation: raw life is filled with energies.

Our eternal side - which has pitched a tent in us - sends things so that by perceiving, by accepting, by becoming aware, we can prepare the development of the soul, of our Home.

It would be impossible to take the path to full Happiness if we did not gather and take in every bit of our being scattered across the world and across time, making every expectation, every moment, every oscillation even broken, meaningful and divine.

The Logos has innumerable Seeds already planted in us: they are all mouldable, non-crystalline energy polarities: points of tension.

Many of them seemingly unsteady, but they restart at the destination of completeness.

[All conversion has its root in the perception of the defect of being: it is dissatisfaction that drives us on].

Provisionalities called to become fixed points - then shaky again, because only through processes of fluctuation are the dynamics triggered that will lead to total growth (with other moments of Exodus).

As a Zen aphorism [collected in Ts'ai Ken T'an] suggests: «Water that is too pure has no fish».

Already here and now we thrive on the earth of a precious seed of the Word. His authentic Tent is 'in-us' and in all motives.

Therefore the «Light of men» (v.4) will no longer be - according to the convictions of the time - the arid regulations of the Law, but the «Life» in its fullness. Spontaneous, real and unrefined: raw, therefore full of powers.

«And the ‘Light’ shines in the darkness» (v.5)!

Just like a plant, which neither takes root nor expands in a distilled environment.

In order to welcome the ever-new and bubbling, we must allow access to all our soul “guests” - who will make us meet ourselves; even the neuroses.

He who Lives proposes a profound Exodus, to become ever-born again. Man's going is not subservient to a one-sided Master.

No longer precisely named 'heights'; inaccessible and distant places to go - on pain of exclusion - but rather Images and Likeness of a God who comes to find us at Home, where we are.

It is the same marginality encountered within - now without hysteria - that infallibly points us to the existential peripheries of others, which we are called to frequent, regenerate, sublimate, move, let rise.

The new relationship with God is no longer founded on discrepant purity and obedience, lavished on rigid precepts and unquestionable traditions or fashions.

Rather, in personal vicissitudes and in the conviviality of differences, Similarity with the Word takes over.

It is the Dream of each and all - in Christ already introduced into the Breasts of the Eternal One convincing and lovable because He is 'inclusive' of Being; not in the way of paternalisms ultimately good-naturedly bestowed.

 

We have in common the 'Displacement'. An end «Word» on univocity.

 

 

To internalise and live the message:

 

How do you start the day? Do you welcome your guests (even emptiness)? Or do you approach them with excessive judgement?

 

 

[2nd Christmas Sunday, January 4, 2026]

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Giuseppe Nespeca è architetto e sacerdote. Cultore della Sacra scrittura è autore della raccolta "Due Fuochi due Vie - Religione e Fede, Vangeli e Tao"; coautore del libro "Dialogo e Solstizio".

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