"Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, nor about your body, what you will wear ... do not worry about tomorrow ...." "defeatist." Here is what would a committed trade unionist in the face of modern logic of the Gospel today. "How do we live like this? What would the industry, trade, gross domestic product, and so on, if everyone thought like that? Would you like to watch the birds, the flowers of the fields and everything else: here, if you do not try very hard, if not you worry, do not get to eat. Other than the sparrows! "Yes, brethren, this is the prevailing mentality: that is the law that makes the world go round," these things go in search of the Gentiles "Jesus replies, as usual, one can not blame him .
Moreover, that makes our society all the sacred days? Let's look a bit 'around: a frenetic activism dominates unconditionally, pushing on two diametrically opposite sides: some are living today in the unruly looking to seize the fleeting moment, taking advantage of every opportunity - legitimate or not legitimate does not matter - provided that they ensure pleasure, satisfaction, sense of fulfillment, while others invest all their resources just thrown into tomorrow, living daily in a growing worry to ensure health, prosperity, wealth, unable to put any limit to their hunger for power. The
one another, in hindsight, we feel sorry for: the voracity of pleasure enslaves them both, both trample the present, today, tomorrow for a hypothetical tormented restlessness: deluded! But who ensures that you get to that tomorrow?
This attitude, which, in truth, not just has to be an exclusive of our time, if already more than two thousand years ago Jesus denounces the absurdity, rather than inviting them to trust in Providence, to trust in God who knows "what we need ': this, look , not to live by unconscious, doing nothing, waiting for manna from heaven, it means not to give more importance to material things than they should have not still live in anxiety as it is feared could happen in the future. This is from people without faith.
the contrary "are looking for - first of all - the kingdom of God and his righteousness' that is looking for what is right before God: the rest will follow. God is a Father who does not abandon that can not be overlooked who remembers his son. "Do not worry about tomorrow, each day is enough for her pain." That is the Christian wisdom.
" Look, look " Jesus insists that a recommendation on the mark, which is just for us. For we are no longer able to observe, we are no longer able to fill the eyes of the world, and what surrounds us. We pass to worlds of beauty every day, and we are nothing, not even raise his eyes. Continuously taken from our worries, our efforts, our sacrifices, our projects and especially our obsessions.
observe life instead, brothers look around, look at the nature ... There is a universe of beauty, an ocean of wonders in which to dive.
And he knows this: it invents nothing strange to reassure us, to send messages. Do not pass certain hours of the night to discover something new to tell us! He preferred to walk, look, look: the woman who kneads the bread with a measure of yeast, the beauty of light, the simple and strong taste of salt, the disease caused by a slap, a grain of wheat rotting in the earth, the sun which lies on the good and the bad, the rain that falls, a woman crying, a man who prays in a hidden room, and another standing as a square.
" Look at the birds of the sky and the lilies of the field! Do not you realize how much you are worth? Do not worry about what they eat, what you drink and your dress .
Beware, though: the words of Jesus, I repeat, not an invitation to laziness, not an insult to the poor that he has in mind, which are ever before, for which no worry about food today means not eating tomorrow. Are no words, his, which called for a philosophy of life apathetic, indifferent, insensitive, stoicista! Do not confuse. Jesus knows the life. He knows the temptation to rush to the man, writhing to any of what his eyes see "Good"! To the point of losing the beauty of life itself.
not as brothers? Do not we risk so many times, wanting to understand all of life, with the completion of not understand it? It's true: the anxiety attorney treasures, but the treasures procure anxiety, and become dogs that bite the tail, the more we toil and worry and more we move away from the possibility of living life, the more we do to influence it, the more we move away from living the possibilities that time gives us, and we let ourselves be overwhelmed by the speed most of the events themselves. We would like to be safe, have security of life, we would like to have everything in hand. Also tomorrow. But Jesus knows that tomorrow is in God's hands, that time is in his hands and to the extent that we own it, right there, then it gets out of hand.
So, brothers, we welcome the ease with which today we are enabled to live, and we put the future in the hands of God to speak in this way the message of Jesus, accept His Gospel!
who, like us, have recognized him when he passed along his life, and abandoned the boat on the sorrows materials to follow him, is truly free: free to get busy, to get as excited about their lives, the lives of brothers, but pleased with the hard work of those who know that life is truly a gift of God is a gift that beyond us. That abounds there.
Jesus calls us to live in freedom, we want to free men and women, not slaves of anxiety, stress or of breathlessness, not slaves to our fears: fear of being judged by others, fear of those who live around us, fear of dying, fear of tomorrow, fear of becoming fat, fear of not being cool ... We should not always live under the threat of ourselves, first of all fears are within us: Martin Luther King at the end of his speech he said: "Fear knocked on my door, love and faith have responded, and when I opened it, there was no one out. " Love and faith destroy any anxiety, any fear.
"Do not you worry ... do not you worry 'for well five times in a few verses Jesus repeats this recommendation. Yes, because we already live with many, with too many things we have closets full, filled with handouts, but we live forever nell'affanno, concerned about tomorrow. Anxiety makes us accumulate useless things, the more we accumulate, the more we feel the need to have. Instead, Jesus invites us to ask only for bread for today: "Give us this day our daily bread." Does not tell us to ask in advance for tomorrow. No, just for today.
"Look - it says - look for the kingdom of God." In other words, "seek first of all to live with love, try to have the love of you, try to be brethren, to love you, look for those most in need of you, seek the agreement and seek my presence. Try these things first: this is important: the rest will be given in addition. " It is love, try to make the other happy, the antidote to anxiety, distress to our daily lives.
This must be, brothers, our "look" everyday. It is in this constant "seek, day after day, week after week, after gospel gospel, and we sense that we discover the meaning of life. Look no means understand everything, but be prepared to learn every day. Learning to live. Learning to love. The meaning of life, in fact, is in same folds of our lives: we leave the house every morning, brothers, and look, look, we walk, we open our eyes and heart open wide.
And learn. We learn that life is a gift, a treasure, is pure gold. And breathe. Yes, we breathe this life, your lungs, breathe love, breathe faith, singing with joy to God Amen.
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