My Cards for Christmas 2010
Jesus' thirst
1. The thirst of Jesus
is a thirst for the love of people took so
as they are,
with their poverty and their wounds,
with their masks and their defense mechanisms
and even with all their beauty.
2. His thirst is that each of us
- "great" or "small" does not matter -
can live fully and be filled with joy.
3. His thirst is to break the chains that closed in
guilt and selfishness,
allowing us to move forward and grow in inner freedom.
4. His thirst is free
energy hidden deep within us so that we may
men and women of compassion,
artisans peace
like him,
5. no escape from suffering and conflict
of our broken world, but
take our place and creating communities and places of love, so
bring hope to this land.
(Jean Vanier, Jesus, the gift of love)
COMMENT MY
Each verse expresses a core value of the coming of Jesus
1. The deep meaning of the Incarnation
2. The gift of abundant life
3. Liberation truer
4. Transfigured in the image of the Son
5. manufacturers hope
Don michele on Future of 23 12 2010
Christmas 1944
tells us a novel that at Christmas! 944, in Nazi Germany devastated by the bombing, residents of a small village on the border with France, celebrated their poor Christmas. There are two brothers, the ancient lords of the place, some of their servants, some farm family with children and the elderly. There is also a girl who has just given birth, after a violence. The child is wrapped in swaddling clothes, emerging only enough to show the face of a deformity on the little face still red. The Mother is hesitant, does not know how it will be accepted. Her smile lights up his face when the two brothers, on behalf of everyone here take both with love and simple human being. The small community to the mother and profound words of welcome for the child the promise of proximity. That will be the true Christmas, Christmas of hope. Germany reborn because there are Germans who are men and men who know how to love. It is the message of Ernst Wiechert in his book Missa Sine Nomine.
could be repeated today a story that, when parents and grandparents and grandchildren to encourage daughters to have abortions have no problems for study, work or just for comfort?
And what of the acceptance of life when the child would be born even just a small flaw, but treatable?
The acceptance of life is increasingly conditioning. I welcome you only if ...
If we solved the economic problems, those working, those of mature couple.
Today we went to you I welcome only if you are healthy, because otherwise you'll be a miserable and it's better that you do not suffer.
In fact we think of our suffering and our troubles. We are afraid of having to serve life in all our lives.
But should not this be the project of giving birth to a child? Serving life with our lives.
Unfortunately for most people is not so and we are collecting poisonous fruit of individualism.
The child does not ask for more than a gift but a right, as if the people could claim rights.
And if the child is a right, must be a child that does not create problems, because the you want for your own gratification. On this way the joy of motherhood has become a super medicalized route, where the various stages are anxiety-inducing by definition. As with anxiety, the tests performed on pregnant women are at the level of the biopsies. Many doctors now conquered the defensive medicine, recommended only in the direction of investigations too, so that abortion remains as a final perspective in case of complications. The selection of the unborn is sadly coming into our mentality. It is a sliding inhumane.
If you want to recover their humanity that we must work in two directions. The first is to use the medicine and especially to investigate treat any abnormalities of the unborn. In this field, now you can do really wonderful things, not at all justify the choice of abortion. Second, work on yourself: you must go back to having children out of love. Who loves and teaches us to love, becomes able to accommodate all life. As in Christmas 1944.
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