It has been a great challenge to be a leader in these past several months. For me, the Coronavirus has brought sudden, radical shifts in my schedule and way of doing work. Just when I think I understand the implications and make adjustments, I am forced to admit that I was wrong. Further, the pandemic has exposed some truths that have been humbling for me and my Jesuit brothers to accept. Among them, we realize we are not as affected as are the majority of people, and therefore we feel we not in the kind of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as we had hoped to be.
I can just imagine that sower throwing the seeds...with great expectation as it says in the first reading.....with great humility...but in fear and trembling...because we know that some of those seeds will not sprout... and some of those seeds will grow a little but then die... And that's how spreading of message goes...that's how creation and revelation and freedom from slavery and corruption and freedom for God goes... it doesn't always go well.
Parece un principio de la vida que el crecimiento, el progreso, la virtud, y dar fruto implica este morir y levantarse, pasando por la oscuridad para llegar a la luz.