December is a crazy month. Tired and the weight of the year, December requires us even more: Balance, farewells, graduations, notebooks, secret friends, barbecues and parties. A month awful, but also fascinating. Is that in December, it seems, we play in life. Of every month, this is the most similar to a "final."
Amid all this hard work, Christmas can touch us, can rozarnos, scenery can be just to worship the "god" who actually consumes all of our forces. What? Each one must examine what is most important in your life: money, work, fame, family, health, sex, music, a dog ... a person or persons by name. But Christmas can also be the opportunity and honor to his knees to thank God that these and other things. And in the toughest cases, a privileged moment to open their hearts and say, "I no more", "could not stand the loneliness," "why me" ...
The birth of Jesus reminds us that Life is not a "right" but a gift. As much as we fight, we can never get far from certain, final, is valuable because we are not free. The richest, those who think saints may kick against this "divine injustice, but God is not stingy or corrupt. The God of Jesus is the God of the poor. He is the God that Christmas comes to hear cries of those who suffer most, of those who failed in marriage, at school, at work. For them, rather than one, Emmanuel represents hope.
Jesus, son of a small-town and a carpenter, omnipotent threat to Herod. The child does not talk, think, depends on all of Mary and Joseph, but in his heart and dreams of a world upside down. A world in which judges do justice to the children of the street, where freedom of expression trumps the owners of the press, in which workers are restored to the fact that robs them of the market. Revolutionize churches the world when these lunatics, drugs, rubbish, AIDS patients and "end of the course" are at the top, think and weigh in decisions that affect them. The Herodians tremble. For these, a world that favors those who deserve nothing is an intolerable threat.
it worth hectic December 1? If this month is equivalent to a "final", what is our team? Christmas forces us to define ourselves. On the field or from the galleries, we play on the side of the world who have earned the new Herodians or the reverse side of the world that Jesus gives us.
Amid all this hard work, Christmas can touch us, can rozarnos, scenery can be just to worship the "god" who actually consumes all of our forces. What? Each one must examine what is most important in your life: money, work, fame, family, health, sex, music, a dog ... a person or persons by name. But Christmas can also be the opportunity and honor to his knees to thank God that these and other things. And in the toughest cases, a privileged moment to open their hearts and say, "I no more", "could not stand the loneliness," "why me" ...
The birth of Jesus reminds us that Life is not a "right" but a gift. As much as we fight, we can never get far from certain, final, is valuable because we are not free. The richest, those who think saints may kick against this "divine injustice, but God is not stingy or corrupt. The God of Jesus is the God of the poor. He is the God that Christmas comes to hear cries of those who suffer most, of those who failed in marriage, at school, at work. For them, rather than one, Emmanuel represents hope.
Jesus, son of a small-town and a carpenter, omnipotent threat to Herod. The child does not talk, think, depends on all of Mary and Joseph, but in his heart and dreams of a world upside down. A world in which judges do justice to the children of the street, where freedom of expression trumps the owners of the press, in which workers are restored to the fact that robs them of the market. Revolutionize churches the world when these lunatics, drugs, rubbish, AIDS patients and "end of the course" are at the top, think and weigh in decisions that affect them. The Herodians tremble. For these, a world that favors those who deserve nothing is an intolerable threat.
it worth hectic December 1? If this month is equivalent to a "final", what is our team? Christmas forces us to define ourselves. On the field or from the galleries, we play on the side of the world who have earned the new Herodians or the reverse side of the world that Jesus gives us.
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If I had to raise a child ... to convey ideas humanity, Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Santiago, 2004.
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