“Let love be sincere. Hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good. That brotherly love you unite each other with tender affection, rivaling you in reciprocal attention. “
Being a mature person is to be a full, whole person. We are asked by Christ to live communion;however, the marks that we bring to our relationships make us create barriers to our brothers.Let us not close our hearts to communion because of the marks and wounds that we carry from past relationships. Do not lose our communion with the Lord, but let us reconstruct our relationship with Him.
On a daily basis, living with different people, small things that happen scream inside us and end up becoming big things; and without knowledge we can not handle them. No one can be happy alone, for the Lord has placed us in this world to others.
It is with humility that we learn to live our relationships. Do we want to be right or to be happy? Sometimes we have to open our hands holding tight to our reasons for the sake of our happiness. To grow with the difference of the other, we must be willing to listen to the other. Pride is the biggest candidate to bring us misfortune.
We have wisdom to break down walls and build bridges. God is communion and not closing. The culture of the meeting is a sure way to happiness. We are called to be builders of bridges and destroying walls.
Pope Francis teaches us: “Nobody builds bridges without the instrument of dialogue.” How is the dialogue with those we love? And how many of the proud do not open to break the barriers in relationships. We destroy the walls of sin through confession. We destroy the wall of grief to reconciliation.
Maturity is knowing reveal the weakness of the other. We are weak, but when we made the decision to destroy the dividing walls in our homes, our marriage, in our work, initiated building bridges. It may be that the wall is high, but have the courage to release forgiveness and love for we break the barriers. Let us build bridges of love.
Father Adriano Zandoná
Priest of the New Song Community