In the theme "The Standard", we are the subject. This theme is especially useful when we are still confused enough to evaluate what we are doing with our own life, and this is configured as a moment of confusion. In other words, spiritual trials are moments of confusion, in which there is not enough clarity that we would like to have, but, unfortunately, we do not have it. And so, we don't find meaning in what we do or in anything else. Or we disperse ourselves when we find meaning in something other than the one, we initially chose.
In these cases, it is the Standard that sustains us in a moment of trial. It is the theme of meditation that helps us to reaffirm what you have chosen to do. It's like preparing a mortar or concrete. When we put it in a shape or mold, it's still soft, and we don't touch it anymore until the mold can be taken out. In life, it is the same, and we will reaffirm ourselves in what we decide to do with our life, in each moment of lucidity because in life we cannot abandon incomplete experiences or, if we do, we leave loose ends of thread in this fabric. In life, the tests are not pleasant.
When we are born, we begin to walk a path that we believe to be ours and, suddenly, someone comes and says that our path is a little different. And the only and best option we have is to follow this path to the end. However, if we follow that path, it is only a matter of time before we realize at some point that it was not us who elected him, but that others or society elected him for us.
In other words, in the theme of the Standard, there is no more room for someone to tell us what to do, when we discover that our vocation is to develop ourselves. And that is what we must reaffirm. Not that the discovery of our vocation brings enough firmness to our concrete to make us feel totally safe. Then, life itself will bring us moments of pain and confusion, and we stagger and wonder: how did we get here? That is why it is important to keep the Standard firm, to reinforce the most important decision we make in our life, reaffirming what we have chosen and, consequently, what we will do. In this way, we reinforce that it was we, in this present, who chose and that the choice made is what we decidedly wanted to do.
The Standard represents the encounter with us, in which we appropriate our life and affirm that this is the life we choose to live.
In these cases, it is the Standard that sustains us in a moment of trial. It is the theme of meditation that helps us to reaffirm what you have chosen to do. It's like preparing a mortar or concrete. When we put it in a shape or mold, it's still soft, and we don't touch it anymore until the mold can be taken out. In life, it is the same, and we will reaffirm ourselves in what we decide to do with our life, in each moment of lucidity because in life we cannot abandon incomplete experiences or, if we do, we leave loose ends of thread in this fabric. In life, the tests are not pleasant.
When we are born, we begin to walk a path that we believe to be ours and, suddenly, someone comes and says that our path is a little different. And the only and best option we have is to follow this path to the end. However, if we follow that path, it is only a matter of time before we realize at some point that it was not us who elected him, but that others or society elected him for us.
In other words, in the theme of the Standard, there is no more room for someone to tell us what to do, when we discover that our vocation is to develop ourselves. And that is what we must reaffirm. Not that the discovery of our vocation brings enough firmness to our concrete to make us feel totally safe. Then, life itself will bring us moments of pain and confusion, and we stagger and wonder: how did we get here? That is why it is important to keep the Standard firm, to reinforce the most important decision we make in our life, reaffirming what we have chosen and, consequently, what we will do. In this way, we reinforce that it was we, in this present, who chose and that the choice made is what we decidedly wanted to do.
The Standard represents the encounter with us, in which we appropriate our life and affirm that this is the life we choose to live.