Today,
let's stop to think about how often it is that we
have to go to funerals. However... it's not very often that think
about our own funeral. It is just like a subconscious strategy which
postpones our death sine die.
Just
observing the rhythm of what surrounds us in nature reminds us of
this fact. We deduce that —in a certain way— we are not
that different from a plant, or any other living thing... We are
bound by, whether we like it or not, the same natural law as all the
other creatures surrounding us. With a very important difference!:
The origin of our life, a life in the image and likeness of God, made
for eternity.
Advent
is infused with this idea. The Lord comes, in great splendor, and
visits His people, with peace, talking of eternal life. It is a
warning: «Yet the outcome will prove Wisdom to be right»
(Mt 11:19). Let's have a receptive attitude to Lord!
«Prepare
the way of the Lord, level his paths» (Mk 1:3), the
Dominican II of Advent (cycle B) reads. Be careful how
you behave socially! it seems to suggest today. It is as though it
were saying: —Do not be an obstacle to God's loving
communication.
It is necessary to
smoothen out our character. It is necessary to reform our way of
acting. We have to change all things that make our responsibility
false: pride, ambition, revenge, unforgivingness, etc. Those
attitudes that make us gods in our world, which prevent us from
seeing that we are not at all the owners of it. We are miniscule in
the extensive history of Humanity.
John's disciples
experienced the purification of their errors. We, Jesus' disciples,
can live the insuperable experience of purification from all our
sins, with the hope eternal life: another Christmas!
Let's renew our dialog
with him. Let's say our prayer of hope and love, without paying
attention to the noisy world that surrounds us.
