Christmas Gifts
Something does not go well in the world and we were satisfied with alleviating to some effect of the structural injustice with alms and Christmas gifts. We lay down to the street to buy for this one or the other, while during the rest of the year we are not able to find a little while to know how how one is, to listen to it. It is not in these celebrations when it undertakes one to us strange solitude, a species of emptiness that we called nostalgia and that is not more than weariness? We leave the package and we enjoy the gift, the present, that return to the home, the sine where a day you knew dear refugee and. That is the home, the space ddonde hope without asking to us what we did, but what happens to me? Only one person other people’s to the culture and the realities that maintain to us is able to reject like absurd these celebrations. We could include/understand our history without the existence of that Jew of Nazareth, that happened making the good, welcoming in marginalized, that it defied to the constituted powers of his time, that preached the Wells-being, that it loved and it was loved, which made that Saturday was for the man and not the other way around, who surpassed the religious and social fastenings of his time, that hired to the women, the children, to the poor men and the old ones and that it brought Good New the all the human beings: Amaos an the other ? It is precise to look for that kingdom that it belongs to that they suffer persecution because of justice, to those who they give to eat to the hungry one, to drink to the thirsty one, that they dress to the naked one, that they teach to that does not know, that they console to the sad one, that they share. And that does not judge nor they condemn but they are arranged to welcome with an arm whereas with the other they contribute alternative proposals to the social injustices that they denounce incessantly forming walls and networks of solidarity. And for this, it is enough to them with walking with its heart to listening, its mind abierta to the truth and the understanding while their arms are abren to welcome and to bless, to caress and to cure. We must take advantage of the special moments to do accomplices to us with the life, and to recognize that we must same a gesture of confidence in the life and commitment with the other.
Thus we will manage to draw up a bridge on the abyss. For that reason it is Christmas whenever somebody welcomes in the others. Jose Carlos Garci’a Fajardo Professor Emrito of the UCM.
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