miniZibaldone

What does it mean to look at the essential? To look at Jesus, to look at Jesus in the hungry, the imprisoned, the sick, the naked, in the one who has no work and  must lead his family forward. To look at Jesus in these brothers and sisters of ours; to look at Jesus in one who is alone, sad, in one who errs and is in need of  counsel, in one who needs to walk with Him in silence, to feel he is in company. From the audience Mercy is not an abstract word, but a style of life: a person can be merciful or not merciful; it’s a style of life. I choose to be merciful or I choose not to be  merciful. It is one thing to speak of mercy and another to live mercy. ...  Requested of us is that particular attention that leads us to be aware of the state of suffering and need in which so many brothers and sisters are. Sometimes we  pass before dramatic situations of poverty and it seems that they do not touch us; everything continues as if there were nothing, in an indif...