Ensure, in the evangelical sense, is not sleeping, wait, hope and wait without knowing when, without setting a date, but with the certainty that this will happen in his time. In a
way, what is expected is already there, because He gives me is necessarily Now it gives me being and living. I hope because I have already hidden in my background, what I expect. At that point Ste Therese Lisieux of before dying and the night of faith, could say: "I do not know what I will have more to heaven ...». She placed , of course, the only point of view of faith. What
misunderstanding on the part of some believers to assert that believers hope to escape their responsibility in this world by taking refuge in another. Their hope for something better in the afterlife would be like a refuge illusory fear of the harsh reality, or fear of facing death, "as if they had fished to feed our hope" (1).
Vigilance in hope means not knowing when, because time is irrelevant in this new register of faith where "one day is as a thousand years." But, it is very difficult, we who are so often inclined to view our schedule and our shows, jumping off the register in time and stick to them. That is why we repeated "watch and pray." Without prayer, life expectancy is long, we may feel forgotten, abandoned. We may then discouragement and sadness.
When someone close to finally leave this world, our reason for living and our hope are often reactivated. We may feel the need to keep in touch again, everything spiritual, with him who no longer here physically, we still appears, however close, but accessible otherwise. Then we take a stronger awareness that one day this will be our turn.
(1) Yves Girard, a Trappist monk.
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