Jun 7, 2026 Written by 

Do you want to pass me on? Have a seat

The alternative "victory-or-defeat" is false: we must get out of it

(Mt 5:38-42)

 

«Other cheek»: climate of inventiveness.

Not opposing the wicked allows one to experience the Beatitudes, antidote to unilateral relationships; but this is impossible, if we do not allow an innate Energy to develop.

In the infinitely repeated counter-exchange there is no wisdom that ‘reads inside’; in the overthrowing, yes.

 

God's new experience is that of a genuine creative Love, which incessantly brings into question, introduces new powers, and incredibly overturns everything.

Outside and within us there is another Territory, where the affinity of Waiting meets God’s Plan: this after a time of Silence that intensely lives the Today grasping its depth, intuiting it as unpredictable root of the Tomorrow.

There is a different ‘kingdom’, where condescension meets new thrusts, cosmic and acutely personal; Profile of the Living One.

This without precipitation: after an «energy of pause», virtue becoming root and sap of the most exclusive future.

 

The firmness in the accepted tribulation becomes Seed of a new Son, of an unthinkable Genesis, which is just weaving its first roots right in that very marshy soil.

The expectation of God opens our destiny of foolishness without respite and already decreed, to trust in a new Sap and Power.

It opens wide the Sense that you do not expect, in an atmosphere of inventiveness that flies over the action-reaction instinct [so that the chain of normalities does not take over the mystery of our Identity-character and Destination].

 

Non-violence is not a norm, but an upper Arrow, pointing a direction of Research, which advances from discovery to discovery.

Truly exemplary life is always of a different kind, out of the ordinary.

Letting even the opportunists pass ahead, creates the right detachment, so that a new, unrepeatable Act of Being takes place.

When we are ready, we will realize that our mortification was a crossroads: it has unexpectedly opened wide the destiny to a less short hope, dilating life.

If the others are not as we dreamed, it is fortunate: the doors slammed in our faces and their goad are preparing us well other joys.

 

The adventure of extreme Faith is for a Beauty that wounds - sharpening perception, shifting the gaze, dilating heart - and for an abnormal, prominent Joy.

The alternative "victory-or-defeat" is false: we must get out of it.

Tao Tê Ching says: «New beginnings are often disguised as painful losses [but] what is yielding overwhelms what is hard. The slow one overtakes the fast».

Only those who know the waiting find their way.

 

 

[Monday 11th week in O.T.  June 15, 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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