Vision of our Life

The vision of our life in the light of Jesus died and risen is an optimistic vision of hope and become
a commitment, a response to the calling in giving himself/herself in joy and praise projecting
towards immortality, << nor death celebrate you; those who go down to the pit can hope no longer
in your constancy. The living, the living are the ones who praise you as I do today >> (Is 38:18-19).
As St. Paul says: << to God we are the fragrance of Christ ….>>; the smell of life leading to life >>
( 2 Cor 2:15-16 ).

How can we bring today hope and trust in life between terror and pessimism, between indifference
and egoism? A tramp confide to a volunteer: <<One time people if not always, gave money, gave a
smile and greeted you; but now they don’t care at all not even a smile nor greet you >>.
Following the Gospel, born compassion and good heartedness which is not goodsome. Walking
on this way and donating ourselves to others, we bear witness that to be human is not voted to
annihilation nor to desperation.

Today’s philosophy speak to us the death of God, of the faint thought which seems that the world is
overcome by nothing – an entropy, the end of all. But we are the revelation of God, visible sign of
his presence and realization of his project. It’s not enough to live << biologically >>, but we need to
discover the secret of life. Many are living in death and giving to death. A life unfold one’s self on
his/her own personal wants and put it in the center as an idol, makes one’s self “ fragrance of death
for him/her and for others and does not permit to discover the secret of life. << For these last, the
smell of death, leading to death >> (2 Cor 2:16 ). Jesus said: << I am the life >> and following him
we will enter to the secret of life and bear witness.

One thing that count is the way to discover life that pass across our choices, decisions, answers
but also through sufferings. Giving birth to life also means to suffer. On the way to discover the
secret of life, we have a privilege means though it’s not the only way: prayer as an encounter is
an immersion in God of life, whatever might be the status of soul in a moment of distraction and
fragility. It is a consolation of the heart that invoke the Holy Spirit.

It is common today and easy to lose the sense of life. The wants to live and wants to go down from
the train and put the journey to an end. Beyond any psychology and pharmacology aspects, the
serenity can be recovered accepting who we are, appraising the precious gift of life and the beauty
to donate it to others despite all; we need to discover in prayer the communion presence with God,
the presence of God that lives in us and heals us, and helps us to overcome all our fears, pessimism,
lack of sense of life and our distrust.

Try to think:
• Is your life is synchronized with the life that Jesus indicate you to follow?
• Do you read your life as a calling to be a gift for others?
• Which bandage or tomb still closed and tied and impede you to be a fragrance of life for life?

03 February 2013