Sunday III of Lent
March 8th
Jn 4:5-26
When read in the key of lack, only two options remain: fatalistic resignation or an anxious and incessant search. The first obligates us to settle into a hopeless pessimism; the second propels us into a race that promises to satisfy our need. But soon, both prove inadequate. Their starting point – reducing ourselves to lack – was erroneous.
As we advance in understanding who we are, we realize that we are already everything we long for. And that the dreamed-of and desired fullness is not found in the future or outside of us, but constitutes us in our deep identity.
Here the search ceases. And the stressful striving to find outside what should finally satisfy us translates into openness and availability to the life we are and that tends to express itself through us.
Then, another striking paradox occurs: *just when the search ceases, action becomes cleaner, more unattached, and more effective*. Because it is not born from the anxiety of someone dreaming of catching a result, but rather flows from the very fullness that is poured out freely, lovingly, and peacefully.
In this way, while anxious activity is a source of stress and a thief of peace, *action that flows from fullness is serene and constructive*.
Enrique Martínez Lozano
(Weekly Bulletin)
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