Andrés Yamit Carrillo Mendoza
Passionist priest
Once I listened to someone reflecting aloud, he said, why it is that human beings sometimes have the God of fear among us. We are afraid of everything. We are afraid to defend ourselves, we are afraid to tell the truth, we are afraid to separate us from what does not do us well; We are afraid to say enough. No, I don’t want the god of fear anymore.
We want God with capital letters, the Lord of History, to the God who frees us and takes away the cowardice. To the creative father who did all things to enjoy them. To the one who gave us the freedom to know how to live and respect. To the one who sent us to his own Son Jesus Christ the Lord.
Peoples suffer from oppressions because in the end there is fear. History tells us realities of various nations that have suffered and continue to suffer injustice to the point that they live in almost misery situations due to the fear that citizens have to rise against those who govern them.
Also, there have been rebellions from peoples who have already decided not to suffer anymore and have launched into the path of liberation. There are cities in different nations where there are always those who defend their rights and raise the flags that denounce injustice. To these cities they usually treat them more carefully and respect the governments on duty.
Jesus already said, that dishonest administrators are more cunning than the children of light, and it is a sadness to see how the children of darkness, which are usually few, can organize themselves to unfavorable the most needy. Jesus urges the children of light to be cunning, sagacious, and guided by the truth, to act and not allow darkness to reign.
What can help us remove fear? Undoubtedly there is something bigger than the fears, more supreme and transcendent that can break any barrier. That has generated shouts of freedom, which has allowed the voice to be raised, which has breek to the disturbed heart and does not let it oppress anymore. And it is love.
True love opens the doors. Break slavery. It gives light to the heart of man. Love makes the unattainable be realizable.
I remember a young man who studied music with a disability and suffered because his fingers did not always work and that led him to study more slowly than others. In addition, to walk it with special devices and suffered climbing stairs or sometimes I had to resort to the wheelchair to be able to mobilize without so much effort.
The years passed and continued in the Faculty of Music. He repeated several subjects, in order to improve his technique. His protoposite was to learn well, even if he had to take a little longer. The day he had the opportunity to sing live in an auditorium after several years of musical training, I heard love sing. Thanks to Esteban, we must say his name, that although others laughed and said that he would not be able to develop the skills or muscle memory to sing or interpret an instrument, he was still in love with his dream, to become a musician.
He sang in a grade ceremony and seemed to me one of the most cute gifts for someone who graduated from the music career. Sitting in his wheelchair he played stand by me, from Ben E King. “When the night has arrived, and the earth is dark
And the moon is the only light we will see. No, I will not be afraid. No, I will not be afraid.
As long as you are, you are by my side. ” Perhaps, we all need to find that light and that presence that takes away our fear to live and make decision what inspires our hearts.
People do not always let love emerge because when they let it emerge then they become warriors for altruistic causes, they concentrate so much on their work that what they do not only benefits them so but others. When someone is in love, he sees limits, sees possibilities and solutions. Therefore, the opposite of fear is the proposal, creativity. An inspired heart is restless, does not stop. He wants to live, there are reasons to continue.
A person in love with what he does. It is passionate, if you are studying, seek to learn and train in the best possible way. His time dedicates it mostly to what he loves. There is no room for laziness because it has a heart and a mint in love, it is focused. He feels a purpose in his life and develops it using his freedom. It can be shaken with pleasure for what he loves. Love makes living fully.
If there is something in your life that tells you, that inhibits you and does not let you be, it is time to say peacefully what does not make you feel good. Express yourself, break your fears to develop naturally. If you have a pending conversation that uncomfortable but will take your fear, do it. One day Jesus unjustly hit him and he defended himself and asked: I have not done anything to you, why do you hit me? Do not let the fearful silence make others oppress you or if you have to organize your life and you have to leave other things to break your fears, do it following the teacher Jesus who tells us: I am the way, truth and life.
And as the popular saying goes: “It is better reddish for a while and not red in a lifetime”
A hug.
