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Lesson I: Loving your
neighbor
Learning to Coexist
The
meaning of life is not in the individual: Life acquires its meaning with the other—with others. "It is not good that the human is
alone"…said the LORD, and ever since that very moment we have all been
learning to coexist together.
The
dizziness of the present times, technology that grows minute by minute,
constant consumption...all of these isolate humans more and more within a space
void of love and attention, within the snare of mistrust and discord and the
trap of competitiveness and individualism. We have embraced that force which
separates us, in its variety of forms, and have become oblivious to that which
unites us, the foundational question.
Not
living together, not living with the other, not being present to one another,
we disregard the voice of the Creator of all who invites us into a life of love
and respect. God, who lives within each of us since the moment that the Breathe
of Life flooded into our being, requests from us only Love: for Him, for our
neighbors, and for ourselves.
And Love
is only possible in respectful and
amiable coexistence, which is not merely a way of living but the Perfection
of Life. It is the spiritual power that transcends differences, the total
acceptance of the way chosen by the brother, the positive force that connects
hearts, restores meaning to life, gives value to ‘us’ and brings us close to
God from the way that each one has chosen.
Thank you, for the life which you
give to me each day.
Thank you, for the Breath of Life
that sustains each beat of my heart.
Thank you, because I can see the
wonder of Your Creation.
Thank you, because I can listen to
voices and sounds.
Thank you, because I can walk,
feel, touch, work, love.
Thank you, because I can appreciate
both mentally and physically the amazing miracle of every day.
Thank you, for my soul that
inclines before You and perceives your merciful Presence everywhere.
Thank you.
Adriana Rajcan Guevara
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