Things that refer
to You are at the same time very simple and yet very deep. You did not need to explain
because the answer lies in yourself. You did not speak of a “scientific” truth,
which needs a lot of knowledge to understand. You were speaking to all,
disregarding talents or skills. We keep on asking the truth to be “scientific”,
yet all of our life we pursue happiness in a very unscientific way. And we
don´t think that is untrue.
So I came to
this answer, and it looked like your answer: the ultimate truth is... God is
Love. Inside this very simple statement lie all your doctrine, and the
explanation to all what surrounds us. The reason of our being here, where we
came from, who we are, where we go, and any questions we might ask, since “You
created us for You, and our heart is restless until it lays in You” (S.
Agustin, Confessions, 1). The statement also hides within the formula to make
this a better World. A civilization based on love, based on your doctrine. One we
do not want to hear, because it is “not scientific”. And we keep searching for
more complicated “scientific” answers which do not bring us peace nor happiness. We do not trust you.
“Love to God
and neighbor is the hallmark of the Christian” (John Paul II, 2nd mistery of
Joy, holy Rosary).
If we attend carefully to that truth, it is like a shoreless sea.
God is love.
That is the ultimate definition of God, one in which all believers agree,
disregard of the rest of their beliefs. God made the Universe from nothing (big
bang included, if that was the way). What guides the universe and all what it
has, is God’s love. The history of Universe, material and unmaterial is the
History of God, who is love, and as such creates, makes itself acknowledged and
inspires our actions if we leave them to do it. God never pushes. If we attend carefully to that truth, it is like a shoreless sea.
If God is Love, and is the beginning and the end of all creation, and created us to rest in Him, happiness is to respond to God's Love.
God is Love, and in Love
is our freedom, when it is true in its nature, as a reflex of God’s love upon us. Love is the
gift of oneself, not a feeling.
The feeling is an effect, not the
origin of Love, to
the point that you can love and
not "feel". Christ
on the cross loves us infinitely, and it is not a blissfull feeling, less a sentimentality.
To know that God exists, created me and loves me is what gives me strength to overcome sufferings and accept them, but also is the source of my happiness. Sufferings do not disappear, but they are looked upon from a different perspective. God did not come to end suffering, but to sublimate it. Loving God back is daring, rough at times, but freeing. All Saints I know about, have had big sufferings and disappointments. But all of them have been enormously happy. They were free. The were loved. They cared nothing else.
“God, through
Christ, reveals humankind to humankind”. (John Paul II, Redemptoris Hominis.
II, 1) We are called upon to be sons of God and build the civilization of Love.
Love projects itself over time and space, and in doing so it becomes part of
infinite. In that knowledge of infinity rests the one sole truth: that we will transcend,
and as we will transcend, all the rest is deciduous. So to know that God is
love and that I am part of it is the ultimate truth that I care most about. All
the rest, will pass. To know that God exists, created me and loves me is what gives me strength to overcome sufferings and accept them, but also is the source of my happiness. Sufferings do not disappear, but they are looked upon from a different perspective. God did not come to end suffering, but to sublimate it. Loving God back is daring, rough at times, but freeing. All Saints I know about, have had big sufferings and disappointments. But all of them have been enormously happy. They were free. The were loved. They cared nothing else.
Alfredo
Barriga
