When you carry a crystal object, you take great care in packing it.
You wrap it well. FRAGILE is written on the box, and the correct position for transport is marked:
I wonder if the same applies to us.
But even before that, I wonder: do we try to make ourselves "strong" in the way we live? Where is the line between strength and hardness? It is thin.
Our young people teach us this. People who live alone teach us. People in need teach us.
Our young people are so sweet or so aggressive.
Can Faith and Light help?
A neurologist from Palermo once told us that Faith and Light works like a therapeutic system.
Jean Vanier argued that inside every person there is a kind of "wolf" that emerges whenever we do not feel recognized.
A person is sacred ground.
We approach it by removing our shoes.
We enter barefoot.
Everyone has a story made of affirmation and rejection. We and others can transform fragility into a radiant beauty that reflects light in all its colors, or we can turn it into sharp pieces—fragments of "me," of "you."
Faith and Light is a place where many young people have found a world where it is possible to be loved for who they are. Many parents and friends have found this too. Yet Faith and Light is not immune to experiences of aggression, precisely because in encounter we learn to be vulnerable and exposed. Wounds can cut even deeper.
So what is the advice? HANDLE WITH CARE.
Yes, handle with care.
Enza Gucciardo, Mazara del Vallo - Mari e Vulcani