"As it does not take things for life: making peace with your heart! Everything else comes to you then boot. "(Y. Girard)
In our world of performance and efficiency, which leads to success, where all wins and wins, the peace that we can find is very fragile. This is probably not the peace that gives a stable, peace of heart. It is too fragile. And yet he must live in this world and make a living.
Is there not something more to grow? In "The gift of growing old, Peter G. van Breemen (1), we noted that there are periods of life and peace of heart is tested; loneliness increases, and is sometimes perceived as abandonment. This made sense at an earlier time no longer. Peace falters. Situation that does not necessarily want old age and may experience many more young people.
Then he must be rooted in a dimension far more inland towards which we orient our trials, where trust can overcome everything. This dimension includes a new element: the mystery of being joined without understanding, but in total confidence. In the Gospel, says the same author "can not find the words performance or efficiency. they speak only of fertility. This implies a new way of conceiving life, because fertility conceals a mystery. Jesus expresses it in a simple way in the parable of the seed: looks like the Kingdom of God. A man throws seed in his field. Then he goes to sleep at night, and he rises each day. Meanwhile the seeds germinate and grow it knows how. (Mark 4) is the fundamental law of the good news ... Faith which gives us life becomes more meaningful. It brings us peace. What the world can offer us. "
Would not that they can make peace with his heart? It's a long process that often we do not care if we're not cornered . Confidence always comes back. To help me: to recognize that passing a certain level, I can not help it. Doing what little I can do. Find my strength in my weakness, to the point of relying on Him who can do everything. God finds joy to fill us, but at a level that exceeds our expectations land. How lucky we are to be able to give joy to God!
That leads us to spiritual maturity, which means knowing how to say thank you to Life. "It helps us not to regard it as a given or as inevitable, but rather to trace to its source. Gratitude requires trust ... The total acceptance is that in gratitude. It alone can unite the life she does nothing, even the failures and disappointments. That's when our hearts are filled with true peace. "
(1) The gift of growing old, from Bellarmine
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