Who Are You and Who Am I?

Departure, wonder, fascination, astonishment, awe.

A contradictory impression. Who are You and who am I?

 It is a question, it is an answer, it is admiration,

It is affirmation; to adore, to accept humbly

and deeply that the Lord is Most High

 and that Brother is small; to adore not to resist,

but to accept everything in wonder and

gratitude, starting with one’s own smallness;

to adore, to kneel at the feet of creation to wash

feet, bind wounds, place little creatures in

a safe place, serve at the table, revere the

 insignificant, despise nothing, be a minimum brother

among the little brothers of creation; to adore,

to gladly accept that the Present One is

the Distant One, and that He who is the essence

 of my existence is at the same time the Other Shore:

to remain still, silent, rapt to love.

From the book “El sentido de la vida” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga