Do you know why there and there will be little hope for a new policy, beyond the usual talk that pitiful, now so fashionable to be on the "new is better", we leave room for the young, worn out faces ... etc ... (as if enough this to solve all our problems, you know how many "new-shit" I know you?)
Just stop on a wonderful reflection of Tonino Bello a few years ago about the meaning of service and policy (for the old, new, young people, those motivated by the hopeful, the willing, the good ones ... anyone).
A reflection that begins with a "parable" ... notoriously known as the "Good Samaritan".
service, intervention, the aid, the care of those suffering from "right time", "time after" and especially "first time" (for those unfamiliar with this wonderful contribution of a great man as bishop and Tonino Beautiful, if you go to study).
And see, when I speak of "service" to listen, share, help, do not necessarily mean the situations of "emergency" and "social assistance", but also and especially what concerns the "normality" of a life immersed in what should be a supportive community to live better, from town, school, art, environment, etc ... everything about human beings and involves for its growth.
Beyond all the tables are round, square, hexagonal, of councils, committees, the Secretariat, the executive, the coordinators of small parliaments, of primary, secondary, tertiary, rivers of words imbued with a bourgeois respectability, a doing good, the overwhelming hypocrisy of good intentions, events ... in short, all this "stuff" which frankly I'm sick and boxes ... who is really suited to live "policy as a way of living the Christian commitment demanding (and not) in the service of others," go, but go and, above all, do it ... pedals in silence ... do it ... and studies, to form, read, study and live among the people, open doors home, face experience of "death" are doing "poor", is to transfer its office sad, maybe inserted in beautiful buildings, in the middle of the square, streets, even in the suburbs last of our countries, see sense going crazy, you do crazy, gay, immigrant, priest, prison, scientists, artists ... wakes up from sleep this long-stoned all of us, proud that we have just one assumes a minimum charge of dementia, was also responsible for the sub-sub-sub-committee of the municipal lapis-pin ...
the Beautiful quote Berdyaev, Russian philosopher: "Bread for myself is a material problem, the bread for others is a spiritual problem" ... I we almost have to laugh (sadly, very sadly) the current thinking and general squalor.
E 'question of ability to "feel" pain, to understand what is your threshold of pain complaint that the level of your sensitivity, and the ability to "bread" took (better choice) - blessed - broken and given, as Henry Nouwen reminds us in his book "Dear Feeling," suggested to me that a priest of our diocese.
You can also find the most perfect form to ensure participation of the people, the true "democracy," the "sound policy", but if you do not know "bread", then we will really little hope.
One last thing: do not even take themselves too seriously and have courage.
courage to go against, to know how to say 'no', to divest himself of the roles that cast on our souls and minds, courage to see that our actions, measured, reasoned, thorough, quality and professionalism even (rarely) at best they are "events", answers more or less exceptional, precisely, to events, situations, events that are good or bad ... the night pink or white, the market in a week, the restoration of the large spa, crime and surveillance cameras, dust and road closures and many other examples ... all "stuff" that comes out of our being "accounting", bureaucrats, prisoners of a system atrophies our imagination, our courage.
The community, man in general no longer needs to "moments" cut from an ordinary mad, depressed and swirling everyday life, surrounded by thousands of problems and concerns, groped for a moment to breathe at least, we need discover ourselves loved, blessed and live in a world that welcomes you every day, where you're not a "guest", but the protagonist.
policy should serve as just that ... themselves as "bread".
Love Peace &
Francis Sturlini
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