Who are you

and who am I?

Exit, wonder, fascination, amazement, 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 profoundly that the Lord is

Most High and that we are little;

to adore, not to resist but

to accept everything with wonder and

gratitude, beginning with one's

own littleness; to adore, to kneel

at the feet of creation

to wash feet, to bandage wounds, to put

the worms in a safe place, to serve

at table, to reverence the insignificant,

to despise nothing, to be the least brother

among the least brothers of creation; To adore,

to gladly accept that the

Present is the Distant, and that He

who is the essence of my existence

is at the same time the Other Shore:

to remain still, mute, static, to love. 

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