Our 40 years
history or legend that is, I want to share a passage from the Old Testament who gave me food for thought to learn how to better understand the life and helped me in difficult moments.
fact in the Old Testament book of Numbers tells the story of the Jewish people led by Moses out of the slave and Egypt where he faces the biggest obstacle and the biggest challenge he ever faced: his own freedom to choose whether to remain or become a slave to something more.
It 's so that after several events arrive at the gates of the Promised Land. Mose
manda delle spie a vedere come è la situazione ma....la gente, il popolo ha paura:
Numeri 14:1 Allora tutta la raunanza alzò la voce e diede in alte grida; e il popolo pianse tutta quella notte.
2 E tutti i figliuoli d'Israele mormorarono contro Mosè e contro Aaronne, e tutta la raunanza disse loro: 'Fossimo pur morti nel paese d'Egitto! o fossimo pur morti in questo deserto!
3 E perché ci mena l'Eterno in quel paese ove cadremo per la spada? Le nostre mogli e i nostri piccini vi saranno preda del nemico. Non sarebb'egli meglio per noi di tornare in Egitto?'
4 E si dissero l'uno all'altro: 'Nominiamoci un capo, e torniamo in Egitto!'
Logicamente Mose loro capo e guida cerca di incitarli, di far loro superare le paure e andare oltre per cogliere le opportunità che li aspettano.
5 Allora Mosè ed Aaronne si prostrarono a terra dinanzi a tutta l'assemblea riunita de' figliuoli d'Israele.
6 E Giosuè, figliuolo di Nun, e Caleb, figliuolo di Gefunne, ch'erano di quelli che aveano esplorato il paese, si stracciarono le vesti,
7 e parlarono così a tutta la raunanza de' figliuoli d'Israele: 'Il paese che abbiamo attraversato per esplorarlo, è un paese buono, buonissimo.
8 If the LORD there is favorable, c'introdurrà in that country, and give it: it is a land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be afraid of the people of that country, because we will do our pasture, and the shadows that covered them hath been withdrawn, and the Lord & # 232; with us, do not be afraid '.
but the reaction of the people is not the best, and God gets angry:
10 Then all the congregation spoke of stoning, but the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting to all children of Israel.
11 And the Lord said to Moses: 'How long will this people provoke me? and until you have faith in me after all the miracles I have done in their midst?
12 I will strike them with pestilence, and destroy him, but I'll make you a nation greater and mightier than him '.
but Mose tries to intercede for his people and God forgives but states that this generation would not enter the promised land and would have wandered for 40 years in the wilderness.
31 Your children that you said would prey 'enemies, the ones I will enter, and they know the land which you have spurned.
32 But as for you, your corpses will fall in this desert.
33 And your children Andran grazing their flocks in the desert for forty years and will carry the penalty of your infidelity until your carcasses are not worn in the desert.
34 As you put forty days to explore the land, you will bear the punishment of your iniquity forty years, one year for each day, and you'll know what it is incurring in my misfortune.
As I said I wanted to briefly summarize the events of Chapter 14 of Numbers to talk about the times in which we also get rid of slavery (Which clearly limits us, prevent us from being what we might be), walk with determination the path of change comnciamo to glimpse the promised land, but we begin to realize that it's an unknown, and ... . we stop.
Because in the end to be honest we were linked to the source of our slavery, so much so that sometimes things get confused, you do not understand if we were slaves, or so we were clinging to it for fear that she was a get away from us.
So often it happened to me that they have abandoned "my personal slavery," I started walk with a firm step, and I realized that in front of them there 'was' my promised land. "
No matter what is in the "promised land" for me may be to lose a bad habit, an odious aspect of my character, a way of seeing things, is free to compile and subjective choice, but always involves a change, a before and an after, a different being, become a better, so it is necessary to force an act of courage, 'move beyond entrenched beliefs, habits, habits , interpretations they gave us and give security.
And I realize in your mind. And you're afraid. You're stripped of a part of yourself, but do not know what you should wear or sometimes humanly and I stopped.
So I'm angry with God, with others, with everyone because it was too much for me.
So sometimes I'm back on my feet and I drove "my personal 40 years in the wilderness."
Instead of going forward, to leave behind the fears, to find that actually I could, I just had to believe and trust in me and if we believe in the one up there.
When I did I realized that I had moved forward the limit of my ability. I was different, I had grown up.
I did what I'm here, to grow, learn and go further expand.
is up to us to decide. Life, in fact I think it's still primarily a choice, always changing, as he wrote of the greek philosopher Heraclitus 500 BC: "Nothing is permanent except change." A
leave something that has stayed with me and was useful for the treatment path and take other necessary items for the section to follow.
Certainly it takes courage, but courage is just to establish the route to the good, steady and positive personal growth.
Because if it is true that 'man is also made of gray or dark sides of the route change must be addressed toward the good, never to the' obviousness of evil , the 'acceptance of human limitations as an excuse, the banality of vulgarity, this is to make strolls "of 40 years," we are allowed, we can choose, but the change will be & # 224; and we would have done us.
pity, no?
Ps: you spoil the ending, then the Jewish people enter the promised land :-)
