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  • An idol that returns in other guises

    When it comes to idol there is always a word from the Old Testament that can be considered an excellent reference. It is present in the book of exodus in chapter 32 and tells us about the episode of the golden calf.

    What happens

    This passage describes the condition of the people who await Moses on the slopes of Sinai. Days go by and they don’t see him coming back. The conditions are not favorable, their leader is missing, but above all, unlike Moses, they are unable to see God, to be in a relationship with him.

    For this reason, they build a golden calf, a god to worship. It is not a random choice, the calf represents one of the main Egyptian deities. So they are really trying to be in a relationship with divinity.

    Idol what the problem is

    The word idol in Greek comes from the verb orao, which means to see. The idol is therefore a replacement for the living and true God. A God that we build ourselves to heal that desire for life that pulsates within us. In fact, each of us has a wound of infinity that beats in our hearts. We are often not aware of this call.

    And for this reason, we take for granted certain behaviors that instead are nothing more than compensation for something much more true and profound. For this reason, it is good that each of us takes a path of truth to understand if, at this moment of his life, he has put something in the place of God.

    Two different times

    Probably each of us has encountered and faced the theme of idols. Going forward on the path of life it must be faced in a different way. At first, the idol was often something that took life away and had to do with obvious illusions (to have, to be able, to appear).

    However, when someone begins to walk from good to better, the enemy attacks in this way by relying on different realities, and normally considered as good.

    For example, the family, an illness that needs attention, work lived for the support of life and the family, a wife or a husband. All good things, but if they take the place of God they prevent him from being the source for our life.

    A suggestion

    The step to take is to understand what we have made into an idol. Once we understand this, it is a question of going to verify what need is hidden behind that action that we have carried out in a more or less conscious way.

    It can be a need for confirmation, a need for attention, fulfillment, listening, and many others. When we understand, it will be a question of understanding how God can heal that need, taking the place of the idol to whom we have delegated this responsibility.

  • Covid, going beyond fear to find yourself

    Covid, going beyond fear to find oneself is the great challenge that we are all called to fight in these difficult times full of anguish. Never before are we all called to fight the battle of battles, face the demons of our fears. Fear is within us, it is an internal resource that allows us to recognize danger and gives us prudence.

    When fear becomes dominant it turns into a tyrant and makes us its slaves. We were born to become free and not to be subjected to a feeling that forces us to lie, to hide, to become cowardly and paralyzed people. Even God, in the sacred scriptures, through his prophets and witnesses of faith invites us several times not to be afraid.

    When Moses stood in front of the Red Sea he cried out to his people about him – Do not be afraid, You will see today the salvation of the Lord. Moses had learned to become a spiritually secure man, he had learned to trust in the power of God. To honor him as the almighty Lord and to give him first place in his life and in his heart.

    The point is precisely this, fear in front of great trials (the highest of all is one’s own death), is not a feeling that we can avoid, because it is part of our human nature. What matters is that the feeling of fear is not put in the first place. But won by an intimate sense of security in something or someone who gives us the strength to fight the battle of the moment with courage and determination.

    Covid, go beyond fear to be reborn

    Personally, I grew up in the swamps of fears, those of my adolescent fragility, those of other people’s judgment, and many others. I know the smell of every fear encountered, their corrosive power, the inevitable drowning in them despite the desire to get out.

    I know the poison which they inject into the psyche and which gives a sense of general paralysis. Always living on a sense of danger, of being able to fall from one moment to the next from the rope of one’s desires.

    I know what the sudden heartbeat that wakes you up in the middle of the night or worse, assaults you during the day when you least expect it means. Fear cares about your future and devours you in its jaws hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Until you are able to rebel against it and thunder, that’s enough now.

    Going beyond fear to find yourself is the most important challenge to fight because it is when we are free from it that we can walk on water. Crossing the Red Sea is like Moses making water gush from a rock to carry out the great project of salvation and inner rebirth that awaits each of us.

    Overcoming fear to regain confidence in ourselves, to rekindle the colors of hope. To feel the scent of true freedom of men and women who know how to give their best, is the great challenge that the Covid virus has launched us.

    There are doctors, nurses, and volunteers who are giving us a great lesson in courage and how to fight fear through passion, dedication, and the love of neighbors. Let’s give them a hand by making them feel that they are not alone because together it is easier to cross the threatening waves of the Coronavirus.