Oh, what a busy, crowd and noisy world it is. Nowadays in my place where God by his Mercy allowed me to be, each person has their own --or sometimes more common "unique" thought, dreams, wills, wants, needs and many other 'private importance's. A life or a space for their own lives. Yes, every body struggle for something that is good for personal basis.
Until they realize that there is something more than that, something mor
e than themselves, something more than me. As God hath placed in our hearts a sacred hunger (as the phrase used by Fr. John Oliver) for Him, his presence and in one relation, true and deep one. Thus inevitably we also have the desire to be in one community with other people. We may not live alone and follow trough our own 'pleasing' desires.But, the fact is that, I can feel sometimes many people- a half meter, a meter, two, five, ten or more meters away from me, they gazed at the emptiness and vanity, a kind of meaninglessness due to helplessness in this precious life, just because they feel nobody want --and forget their willingness to simply listen to the 'soulspeech' of their brothers and sisters. Sometimes the preoccupations, perceptios has unfortunately overloaded our minds to the point we have no more space for others, for those who need our care and our ears-- The willingness to listen and to weep for them and to help them.
Forgive me,
a humble servant of Jesus.
Greetings, Yudhie.
ReplyDeleteIt's odd for me to read these things, because I thought this terrible isolation of ourselves from everyone else was just a Western thing...and then I read about it from an Indonesian in Indonesia.
I suppose it's not just modernism, but man's sinful heart, that is to blame.
A necessary reminder to me that the cure for the world's spiral toward death is not to be found merely in a change of culture, geography, or scenery, but only in the Life of Christ, in the vessel of His Church.
Lord have mercy on us.
Peace be with you. :)
JLB