Prayer-event, for awe

The encounter with the Lord has its own essential radicality. It is precisely the Easter event that reveals and communicates the absolute newness of the story of the children of God.

It is the birth of a new life that allows events to be freed from all limitations. Jesus assumes them all.

This absoluteness is able to bring every vicissitude and condition to blossoming, transforming all prayers into sanctuaries of absolute newness.

A power that rejects the torment of vulnerability, indeed transforms precariousness into a resource (a quality of ethical progress).

For an experience of the fullness of being, the virtuous and singular effort of the lonely and titanic torment of those who want to free themselves with their muscles from infractions is not enough.

Religiosity does not constitute us.

Authentic Power is only accepted - in the Spirit, which resurrects life from dust and obfuscation.

Illusory to eliminate all personal limits and conditioning: we would be outside the truth of the Easter Event.

A gift, not an appearance of impossible, out-of-scale hypocrisy.

Such is the dimension of the Easter 'Different' between religiosity and Faith,

We begin to take the divine Project and God Himself in others seriously, precisely when we begin to be patient with our own equivocal, mediocre affairs of such insufficiency.

E.g. by avoiding acceleration, or recognising the fruitfulness of one's own boundaries - including laziness to be redeemed, or any kind of excuses made for not moving; but in due time.

That of Love is a Path.

Thus, after the varied journey, as in the Gospels of Easter morning and Easter Day, we begin to glimpse Life even amidst signs of death! 

And the gaze fixed on the tomb turns to the Risen One, the Living One who enlivens us with other, unexpected processes.

Accepting oneself and one's history is a fundamental stage of the believer's journey: a new Covenant.

It is artificial to have sympathy for one's brothers if one is harsh and not tolerant - not even in manners.

From the point of view of Faith, it is precisely our eccentricities [and the most bizarre] that are interesting events to understand. Even those that have sent us into crisis and shamed us.

Inwardly, they speak of our essence and open missionary, cultural, affective, unusual, awe-inspiring horizons.

Achievements can evaporate, successes are often ephemeral. What does not pass is the deep relationship with one's 'self'. 

To know how to be with oneself means to esteem oneself without calculation, therefore not to torment oneself - and in return not to nag those around.

In the discouragement of betrayed Love... perhaps the most relevant aspect of the devout man who seeks Perfection is paradoxically that towards his own self.

The solution is provided by the believer in the Faith, affectively integrated because in deep prayer he has understood that a life of salvation is not identifiable with fortune, appearance, performance.

It is far more springing and unconditional reality.

And it is blossoming, now, astonishingly; it does not require a struggle against oneself, in order to go on stage.

On the contrary, it goes hand in hand with the growing awareness that it is good to start taking care of precisely the 'shadows'.

Grey areas perhaps accentuated by guilt - inculcated and underlined by our inevitable neglect of roles, mannerisms, the 'rule'.

Beware the filter of external expectations: especially those considered spiritual risk being illusory.

And in the pastoral of consensus [I give you what you want] totally conforms.

The poisons of criticism or self-criticism must be swept away, but not with laceration.

We should take the wise path that amplifies the horizon and puts the expectations of our imaginary spectacles first in the background, then behind us.

Let them flow, then perhaps they will play a role.

One must not get wrapped up in fragmentary considerations or schematic goals. Thus displeasing the personal soul with the comparison of what is in one's mind, making insufficiency to models the protagonist!

A little experience is enough to make us remember how many certainties we were once convinced of, have vanished, evaporated suddenly.

And in spite of this, we remain perhaps still outwardly full of certainties and false perceptions; sometimes with people we seem like a river in flood, about this.

Then we are no longer ourselves in the field with our attitudes, but our official persona, or someone else's dream.

And we do not see well what we actually need, which real life spontaneously brings - stronger than us.

In our innermost selves we grasp the Presence as of an 'innate knowledge', an original Wisdom that is a trace of God's signature in our souls - which every now and then bursts forth.

Presence that does not want to be submerged by induced ideas; those that cause personal character and its destiny to founder.This Invisible Friend suggests, and guides us far better than an unfailing falseness.

Because it leads the real game in synergy with our inclination and deep Calling, which is a trace of Creation.

If we do not listen to the Voice of this navigator who knows where to go, it is because we have allowed ourselves to be identified with tasks, robes, offices, positions, levels, titles, styles, ideologies or mental models that lead away from the Essence - as well as from the kind of change that belongs to us.

But although full of plans and dreams in the drawer, the soul chooses for us.

Every now and then the Roots break through the asphalt and come up unexpectedly. 

They reveal themselves like those of the pine trees; they are branching horizontal presences, just beneath the layer of earth that covers them.

To enrich Easter Love, the great work is not to seem 'better' at all costs, but to care for what emerges as estrangement from the standard of identified 'dispositions'.

And to be reborn upon it. Even suddenly; it is not the result of intentions, intentions and performance!

Regenerating... is when something non-ordinary is triggered: also a nice No to cages (within which idols and fixations bounce).

Therefore, one might even indulge in a dual or even distracted mind from time to time, in order to go beyond the established model of perfection.

Detachment neither conforming nor configured; placing oneself in a condition to welcome the gift of reality.

And allow oneself the right to wander, or to pursue one's own Image-Vision where a Calling lurks.

Tinkering with an eccentric, seemingly absurd vocation - and not knowing how to be in the world.

It is important to tolerate oneself - it is not a luxury - in order not to have a life that is always the same, rather recognising that one possesses underlying capacities.

Allowing oneself to be saved without claiming to redeem oneself with one's genius and muscles means welcoming what happens.

And letting life, personal instinct in the Spirit, lead us; with a more conscious perception, with a look into the 'present'.

To love God is to learn to correspond within, to that which comes within us, even in the summary - even as annoyance.

It is a worthy energetic host, albeit a different one: for an Annunciation. Daily Easter. 

It is a sign that our soul does not want to put its hidden resources into oblivion.

Let us not forget: when our deep nature felt dissatisfied [or even wanted to ridicule us], it was because it wanted to express strong inner knowledge.

Ways of being or something that to our 'identity' does not fit - and frankly (spontaneously) does not fit.

Often material failure is just around the corner precisely because we are already identified with the 'character' and distract ourselves from the events, neglecting their significance.

We feel, however, that a predetermined situation distances us from ourselves,

The 'manner', even the glamorous 'manner', extinguishes the blaze and brio of the sacred, unquenchable Fire that burns in the heart.

No one can make it pale. Not even a considered choice of accommodation, within which we have forced ourselves and sat down.

After all, we know that happiness is not the past or fashionable, nor can it be postponed.

let alone being reduced to a journey on an uphill vehicle with predetermined stages, which ends at the planned terminus - which then turns out to be anonymous and still uncertain, even deserted.

Things that do not please and trouble the soul bring great wisdom to Love and Life.

They are not a problem, but rather signs that if taken seriously bring with them the solution to the great and true unknowns, the significant lacerations of personal existence, of the relationship with sisters and brothers, of the world around us.

How do we internalise our emotions and events wisely?

If we sometimes judge ourselves and continue to re-actualise the episode with a sense of unworthiness, it drags on and devastates. And when one feels guilty or compressed, one cannot love.

Filling the reposed brightness of Consciousness with burdens, lamentations, induced or calculated expectations, becomes a poison that not only does not honour the Lord who wants to germinate and incarnate again, within. It disempowers and dulls the existence of all the hearts at our side.

We would also dampen the mental system, along with our own. And all the implications and activities we deny will turn into ballasts: fears that block new paths, any real attunement with God and neighbour.

For healthy growth in generosity and Easter attitude, one must release and integrate stagnant power; lost in the vicious circles of dissatisfaction with what we 'want'. However, wonderful Surprises about intentions.

Oscar Wilde said: 'when the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers'.

Easter means: no regrets! Stop tormenting ourselves by telling ourselves that we are wrong.So let us cultivate the passions, let us pursue the Icon that characterises us, let us fly the Call without self-design.

And we see it Present - dreaming, but with open eyes.

It is not the goal that gives us the joy of the experience of fullness of being.

Let us not pass off an identity that does not belong to us, or a contraband affectivity, with what Jesus suggests.

He comes not to impute us with inexorable failure even in the details - as in archaic religions - but to make us grow and enhance us in everything.

The discriminating choice is between an illusion of victory over death, which then disintegrates, or the dazzling Easter in Faith, which recovers being and constitutes us.

Finding ourselves, reaching ourselves on time.

From weakness to full life, eliminating contrived intentions.

And when we catch ourselves scrutinised by men - perhaps by ourselves - we will know that we are redeemed from within.

Contemplated by God, in reality he sees life even behind dark sides, and amidst signs of death.

Perhaps not a few are still surprised by the 'empty tomb': that is, a Risen Jesus only 'personal', lived in love, in the free normal, in the gift of self that conquers death. But without any 'mausoleum'.