An Ode to Life

We are invited to enjoy intensely in the apparently narrow horizon of our existence, filling up constantly the empty containers. We will enjoy together through the generations, keeping the new wine in barrels of oak. We will not be trapped by the shadow of fear because our house is not an anchor but a mast.

Every piece of life is a necessary link in the wide expanse of the vital circle. The old of today is not the adult of yesterday, while the adult of today is not the adolescent of the day before yesterday. We cannot drink life in a single quaff since everything is contingent: being born and reborn; it changes form; and everything flows like the current of a river. Every moment of life is different from the preceding as well as the succeeding. I will sing beside the river to the passing current, and to the clouds that sail above the world, in the direction of distant and eternal shores.

Life was given to us gratuitously, without our asking or our need, nor was the reason for this offer explained to us.

To begin to live means to open oneself to the horizon of unlimited possibilities, to begin a journey of an infinitely immense future. In this walk-through life we will die many times, leaving behind what we are in order to begin new stages of multiple possibilities that await us at every fragment, where a resurrection will follow every decay because life is like that: it never dies.

Extracted from de book “The Force of Decadence” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga