One of the Gospel passages that clearly express God's patience is: "No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them" (Mt 13:24).
Faced with the world's current situation, a lot of people favor drastic solutions. I remember what one Sister shared with us a few days ago, that there is no such thing as a "just war". War is always violence and always begets further violence. To respond to violence with violence is to knowingly enter into the spiral of violence.
So what do we do?
I think the call for me is to willingly pay the price so that the chain of violence stops in me. This is not something that I do once and for all. An action in this direction is made possible by a journey of purifying myself from everything that is selfish that leads me to horde and to accumulate, to defend myself and to look at people as threats, to use and to exploit, to humiliate and to discard. All of these cause violence.
Yes, in my own body I need to pay the price. It may even cost me my life, but this is the only way. In fact, this is the way of Jesus.
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