kindergarten children (formerly "toddlers") tend to measure their progress in math with the amount of numbers you know: "I can count to ten ... twenty ... hundred " . Parents rejoice and celebrate these achievements expressed with the tongue of cloth. We have grown used to and have, thereby discovering the multiplicity of things and people, the variety and complexity of the world that surrounds us. Only number one is reserved for me. I am one, the others are many.
to adulthood, I think it is necessary, especially for Christians, do the reverse and learn to count only up to one, to discover each person singular, unique and unrepeatable, and treat it as such in order to meet each occupation and work as if it were unique and therefore the most important.
I think the true Christian has to know one when you have only to practice charity to others. The amount not only impairs the quality, but also may hinder the charity. That all trades ...
God only knows how to count to one. God is the utmost simplicity. In Him there is any complication, his knowledge of everything and everyone is absolutely unique and each person downloads all his omniscience and not part, but all his infinite love.
I would like to know how to count only up to an order to treat each person as if it were alone on the earth. Like Jesus. Jesus called his apostles one by one. Infinitely loving his eyes rested on that rich young man. A Risen called Magdalene by name and Peter also for the triple confession of a love of repentance and obedience. Paul knows well that the love of Christ, being universal, it manifests in the first person "He loved me and gave Himself for me" (Gal 2, 20 .) John Paul II admitted that when he spoke to the multitudes, he imagined he was talking to one person.
The great discovery of the love of God in Christ is precisely based on this uniqueness. God knows me personally, Jesus loves me and calls me by my name. God has saved us, not herd (mob), but the family (1 + 1 + 1 ...).
I would like to know how to count only to one, to see how the grace of God comes to each person unique and different. This is felt especially in the sacrament of Confession. And he experienced both as to the other side of the grid.
Will you continue to dazzle the people of today's "new" (in quotes because they have little new) religions reincarnation and plunged into the most radical cosmic impersonality, when you discover that is unique and that the one God Personal (tripersonal) knows you and loves you personally?
In a world in which the person is considered many times as a number, as an object of a consumer society or as a piece of a gear universal, apostolic and missionary work is necessarily - and thus far we have already won - by dealing directly and personally with each man and woman, vast microcosm of love and sin, feelings and affections.
I would like to count only up to one, to tell the one every night that I have helped save the person he loves.
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