Reforming the World

Yesterday, in a personal meeting, a friend of mine said: “many people among us live in deadly contradiction. You see them on the one hand hating death, and on the other hand putting to death the beautiful things planted by God in us”! I cannot describe to you the pains that these words have left in my heart. Is it God who moved my friend to issue this painful description? Nothing hurts you more than someone revealing to you that we are God’s grief! My friend knows that, to reform the world, it takes more than merely describing its painful flaws. To reform, description is a necessity that calls for service. How do people pay attention to the divine beauty that is in them? How do we help them fructify it in themselves? He who realizes that his salvation is tied to this service, does not concern himself about doing anything else in his life.