In the Gospels, Jesus lives and transmits radical truths to people: he loves deeply and teaches that with his help man too can come to love in this way.
But for Jesus the Word is not a concept to be understood with one’s mind and applied with one’s own strength. Instead the Word is a seed given gradually and which, if accepted, grows gradually, to measure for the specific person. So you don’t have to do everything right away but try to be yourself with simplicity and common sense in the light that is gradually given by God. Feelings are never sins because they come by themselves: anger, grudges, judgments, passions, they come by themselves, the sin is rejecting the light which, to the extent that it comes, directs us to go further, towards good.
Only God with his wise and delicate love knows how to open the heart of every person. The wounds come from a love that hasn’t arrived or that has arrived strange, gloomy, rigid, schematic, efficiencyist, functionalist, unnecessarily lax. When God’s authentic love gradually manifests itself, the knots in our lives virtually unravel, the paths to our full realization open up.
No more a moralistic, disembodied spirituality, a spiritualism nor a technical psychology, than mere functioning. Only the authentic love of God’s makes us reborn in full. The trainer does not tell the disciple what he must do but helps him to get in touch with the authentic love of God. Discernment in his own life is done by the disciple, in God and with God.
Our humanity is brought into a serene and simple relationship with God, learning not to be deceived by feelings of guilt, by rigidity, by brains, by useless laxity.
This peace in our most intimate and profound relationship with God gradually directs our whole life not to be deceived by excessive anxieties, complications, negative thoughts.
We learn to let decisions ripen in concrete life by following Jesus. Grace, when we try to welcome it, grows more and more. Even if at times we may feel confused, dry, if we persevere in growth the Spirit comes more and more to fill our hearts, console us, heal us completely, as we could not have imagined.
On this path we learn to recognize the growing well-being, the spiritual, human, material gifts of God and to let them grow. We return to the Gospel always discovering it in a new way, because the love of Jesus is so beautiful that the Church itself will never cease to intuit it, by grace, ever better. We gradually learn to let ourselves be led along the path of faith and not into mere religious ethics. We always see everything anew.
“Blessed are those who find their strength in you
and decides the holy journey in his heart.
Passing through the valley of tears
changes it into a spring,
even the first rain
cloaks it in blessings.
His vigor grows along the way,
until he appears before God in Zion (Ps 83, 6-8).