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Category: Writing and Poetry
"Look Around You" by Henry L. Meyers.
Look around you, sisters/brothers, look around, who is the person sitting next to you?
The person next to you is the greatest miracle and the greatest mystery you will ever meet at this moment, a testament of the Word made flesh, of God's coming continually into the world.
The person next to you is an inexhaustible reservoir of possibility with potentialities that have been only partially touched off.
The person next to you is a unique universe of experience, with necessity and possibility, dread and desire, smiles and frowns, laughter and tears, fears and hopes, all struggling for expression.
The person next to you is surging to become something in particular, stands for something, counts for something, lives for something, labors for something, waits for something, runs from something, runs towards something.
The person next to you has problems and fears, wonders how she/he is doing and often doesn't feel very good about it, is often undecided and disorganized and painfully close to chaos, but she/he is endowed with a great toughness in the face of adversity, able to survive the most unbelievable difficulties and persecutions.
The person next to you is a whole colony of persons, persons met all during his/her lifetime really a community, in which still lives a father and a mother, a friend and an enemy.
The person next to you has some things he/she can do well, and some things he/she can do better than anyone else in the world; there is something he/she one life on earth means and cares for; but does he/she dare speak of it to you?
The person next to you can live with you, not just along side; he/she can live not only for himself/herself; but also for you; he/she can confront, encounter, understand you, if that is what you want; and in turn she/he is to be understood, too.
The person next to you can never be fully understood, he/she is more than any description and explanation, he/she can never be fully controlled, nor should he/she be.
The person next to you is a mystery, as the Word made Flesh is Christ. And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us. So, sisters/brothers, look around you, for Christ is here.
10:37
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