Marco Iazzolino

The word emergency is one of the most used words in recent weeks marked by the Coronavirus. The headlines in the media, the ambulance sirens, the comments of the people in line at the supermarket, the requests of grandparents, everything seems to have the taste of emergency. Its root has a double valence that has at the center “the sea,” which in the ancient times a symbol of life. To emerge means “to get out of the sea.” The emergency asks us to get out of the sea. But what can it mean for us? What comes unexpectedly is like a wave that arrives. We can “decide” whether to succumb to the wave or draw strength from the sea to “re-launch” ourselves. Difficult? Only if we don’t think it’s possible.

Nelson Mandela recalled that “our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising again every time we fall. Just like Jesus, who told the paralytic that “he complained of the lack of help from others”: get up and “become the protagonist of your healing”! Courage