CUSTODIANS
recalls the commitment to "guard", preserve, protect, defend ... also shut up? Why - to keep something - we must also hold it back, hide it, put it in a safe.
But the readings suggest that it is a case for freedom. How to reconcile with the guard to leave free? Curious contrast, provocation intriguing, interesting developments.
One of the insights might be about the way I live / experience relationships with people.
The temptation would be to keep people who are dear to me: keep on hand, keep-treatment, overcome them .. owning them. In the name of a case of a misplaced affection, of a hidden latent selfishness at the bottom. But
to safeguard freedom leads me to look beyond the temptation to consider the case in a way other (divine and evangelical). For my freedom , first of all: freedom of pastor / father / guardian the craving to own, manage people as if they were handled things and objects, and retain with jealousy names, faces and stories as if they were personal possessions, and not gifts of the Lord. For the freedom of others : freedom to be who you really are and not who I feel better, freedom to follow each one's vocation senza condizionamenti..
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