SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023
“God’s grace in us always works on our nature.
Thinking of a Gospel parable, we can always compare grace to the good seed and nature to the soil (cf. Mk 4:3-9).
First of all, it is important to make ourselves known, without fear of sharing the most fragile aspects, where we find ourselves to be more sensitive, weak, or afraid of being judged.
Making oneself known, manifesting oneself to a person who accompanies us on the journey of life.
Not who decides for us, no: but who accompanies us.
Because fragility is, in reality, our true richness: we are rich in fragility, all of us,
the true richness which we must learn to respect and welcome, because when it is offered to God, it makes us capable of tenderness, mercy, and love.
Woe to those people who do not feel fragile: they are harsh, dictatorial.
Instead, people who humbly recognize their own frailties are more understanding with others.
Fragility, I dare say, makes us human.
Not by chance, the first of Jesus’ three temptations in the desert – the one linked to hunger – tries to rob us of fragility, presenting it as an evil to be rid of, an impediment to being like God.
And yet it is our most valuable treasure: indeed God, to make us like him, wished to share our own fragility to the utmost.
Look at the crucifix: God who descended into fragility.
Look at the Nativity scene, where he arrives in great human fragility.
He shared our fragility.”
Pope Francis
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 