It is undeniable that in the present times exists an almost bottomless crisis or lack of absolute moral values that could allow us to establish real parameters for the analysis and especially for the setting up of routes or vivential paths that could allow us to walk them, firmly stepping on, through every adverse circumstance in our lives.
For this reasons, and in my innermost reflective moments, the concepts stated by my son Victor in the prayer and worship song he titled “Cristal Clear and Docile” more than twenty years ago, while an adolescent and member of the youth group “Youth for Jesus” we mentored in Guatemala, resound as vivid and appropriate as they did when he sung it with his youthful enthusiasm that energized the whole bunch of kids in the group.
Those years were difficult years. But we always looked ahead with hope and trust in our hearts.
They were very special years for our family life.
Those were principles and values consolidating years, within conceptual contexts, similar but at the same time different for each one of us as individual persons inlaid in a family nucleus walking through very adverse circumstances brought by forced political exile that could not be easily visualized by the run of the mill normal people around.
Cristal clear for my son meant to be essentially clear in his focusing and understanding of the avatars of life.
Being docile for him meant to accept without unnecessary and unreasonable rebellion the well intentioned advice of parents, not only the biological ones but those of his friends, analyzing them with his growing and expanding youthful curiosity, in such a way that led to an exceptional maturity at an early adult age phase.
For this reasons, and in my innermost reflective moments, the concepts stated by my son Victor in the prayer and worship song he titled “Cristal Clear and Docile” more than twenty years ago, while an adolescent and member of the youth group “Youth for Jesus” we mentored in Guatemala, resound as vivid and appropriate as they did when he sung it with his youthful enthusiasm that energized the whole bunch of kids in the group.
Those years were difficult years. But we always looked ahead with hope and trust in our hearts.
They were very special years for our family life.
Those were principles and values consolidating years, within conceptual contexts, similar but at the same time different for each one of us as individual persons inlaid in a family nucleus walking through very adverse circumstances brought by forced political exile that could not be easily visualized by the run of the mill normal people around.
Cristal clear for my son meant to be essentially clear in his focusing and understanding of the avatars of life.
Being docile for him meant to accept without unnecessary and unreasonable rebellion the well intentioned advice of parents, not only the biological ones but those of his friends, analyzing them with his growing and expanding youthful curiosity, in such a way that led to an exceptional maturity at an early adult age phase.
It has been a wonderful experience seeing him mature into a well organized and Christian individual, under the clear and tangible protection of God that has been always present in our family lives.
It is my desire to encourage all those adolescents in the midst of their confusing but exuberant growing phase, when sharing these special moments in the spiritual growing path of my son, reflected in the lyrics and the music of the prayer and the melody sung by one of his friends in the youth group, who is now a young but well seasoned singer and evangelist.
It is my desire to tell them…
Yes, it can be done! Yes, you can be faithful to the inner person you are without falling into the traps of the world!
Yes, you can face life being crystal clear and docile before God, a God who understands, who loves, who protects who leads and strengthen our inner being!
Yes, you can advance without giving in yourself to the peer pressure, and without compromising your personal identity and integrity!
The challenges out there seem insurmountable and innumerable. The violence and oppression are overwhelming. The wicked ones seem to always have the winning cards in their hands.
But, yes, it can be done! We can be ourselves, without giving up, without giving in, without accepting being changed and crushed by the trials and adversities of life.
Yes, we can be crystal clear and docile, and victors under the guidance and the protection of the Lord!
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