Making a paradise of our life (INDIA 2018)

<<< 09/30/2018 Making a paradise of our life Back home, it seems the paradise is already over. How hard it is to return! It’s getting difficult, why don’t we stay more days? Shall we go back to Saboga? We all ask ourselves the same questions. But after hearing the Pope say “the present,” Christians of the now. Then I think that going back is not the solution. What I propose is to make our day-to-day like the Island. To make our life a paradise. It’s not easy at all, but I think it’s worth it. You can still see the beach but now it’s the diagonal. The little island where we used to swim is the bar with friends, the soccer field is the office. It’s about making our life a paradise! With everything that comes with it. Saying YES to Christ, embracing life as it comes, but with everything. With its difficulties and contradictions. We must know how to embrace those fragilities, which can be family, friends, colleagues. Our tiredness, contradictions that on the Island were mosquitoes and ants or eating rice again. Now those contradictions are the boss, missing the bus right in front of you, or having your car towed. I always end up making mountains out of problems when in truth they are nonsense. We give too much importance to our work, our lives. We fill ourselves with mirrors that only make us see ourselves and we are not able to see anyone else. We want to be important and see ourselves in the mirror, see that even the tan lasts. But if we remove all those little things that limit the mind and heart, if everyone fits in the mirror except me, that is when our heart is completely filled, with God and others. Upon arriving at the Island, Don Josepe said some of us were looking at the sea: here it’s very easy to get stuck, that’s why, “you shouldn’t pay too much attention to the body.” I loved that comment. Honestly, I really wanted to lie down there, but when those days ended I realized that the best way to enjoy the Island was not to be on the floor, but standing up; not to stay on the floor, which is very easy and what today’s society calls us to. Then I thought: the Pope is not only referring to staying on the floor when I’m feeling bad, when I have problems and sink into them without knowing how to get out, but the fact of lying down, doing nothing. Resting from rest... it made no sense. Doing whatever I want whenever I want but without staying on the floor so I don’t stay in my mirror. The last idea I keep is that nothing can be saved if it is not loved. You have to put love into everything, putting love means putting your soul into everything we do. This has been one of the phrases of the trip: WITH ALL THE SOUL! That is love, whatever we do always giving love so that it can be saved, which is nothing other than bringing it to the Father. Now I know you can even go calmly but doing it with all your soul! MAKE A PARADISE OF OUR LIFE! >>>