I was told for the very first time I went to a mision that at the end, you get missionized by the incrediable faith some people have. It was been long since I felt that sensation again... today happened again =)
Today's biblical passage was Luke 2, 40:52. The aspects we most highligthed were the respect Mary had as she asked gently to his son of his action:
| 48 | When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety." |
As well as the Jesus' obedience towards his earthly parents:
| 51 | He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. |
Both are such important facts because both Mary and Jesus ought to be our role models; one as mother and the other as sons and daughters. And this is what we were explaning when the man we were visiting took the word and continue the speech better than any of us could have done.
After describing Mary's and Jesus' good examples, he continued with his own example and how he had done with his own family. That is when he said this beautiful phrase he had once seen and tried to follow: "Señor, yo quiero se como Tu, por que mi hijo quiere ser como yo" which means "Lord, I want to be like You, because my son wants to be like me".
Aren't they just exceptional? And hearing these words from a man who had no easy childhood but has done his best to rise his children in hand with love, was just amazing and unthinkable. I was atonished; so was my partner.
Then, a question came into our minds: What would be of the world if everyone would think this way? An aproximated answer: much much better.
- "and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers."
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