Sometimes, many more than we want to accept; dissensions, anger, rispideces arise both in the secular family and in the very bosom of the Church. I say: in all areas where human beings converge, with their different ways of thinking, seeing things, acting in the most diverse situations. Unfortunately, this is common and even "normal" within our fallen nature outside the Garden of Eden.
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This is how relationships deteriorate, they break up. Sometimes, with effort, with good will, they are able to rebuild, and reasonably resume them in a healthy atmosphere. But it's like the wounds. Although it costs us and despite recognizing it, scars remain in most situations, with few exceptions; in those in which a miracle of the Lord manages to do what human beings can not.
It's like when a glass breaks. With care and patience we can collect each of the pieces and paste them until it is armed again. But if there is something irrefutable, is that once rebuilt is not more than a few pieces stuck together. His appearance will not only be the same again, but very likely when receiving water, there has been some fissure that the glue could not restore and the liquid to a greater or lesser extent tends to be lost.
The wars in this world have started like this, although this seems exaggerated. A small dissension, a disagreement that was not given importance in its time, generated a slight resentment that over time was growing and adding more people. The resentment became collective and eventually turned into rancor. Resentment gave way to hatred and hatred led to a terrible act, entering a path of no return. People against people. Groups against groups. Peoples against peoples. Finally, countries against countries.
In everyday life, these ruptures are responsible for divided churches, broken homes, families and destroyed lives. Hatred and rancor have led to untold suffering, even led to the madness of many people. Everything began with a small resentment that did not know how to attend properly in a timely manner.
Thinking differently is fine. Do not agree, it is also an attitude many times healthy and intelligent. But if that disagreement generates resentment, it will be necessary for us to pay close attention. It depends on us whether a small spark is able to ignite the fire of the Spirit of God, or generate a devastating fire.
Maybe today you have a "small disagreement", a disagreement perhaps unimportant with your neighbor, with your partner, with your child, with your brother, with your co-worker. There is an inexorable reality: if today it is not serious or urgent, it is not attended to properly, you will be that glass broken and badly stuck.
Around us there are many people "broken glasses". We ourselves are not excluded from the possibility of being so. They bear deep scars on their souls, the product of resentment. Their glasses are not restored to new, they are only pieces badly stuck. Many people live by biting anguish, kneading a pain convinced that this is forgiveness.
God does not serve his Water of Life in broken or patched vessels. It is necessary today to go to the altar of the Most High with the broken glass and give it to the Great Maker.
Only the miracle of the Restorative Grace of God's Forgiveness is capable of doing it again.
"Take away from you all bitterness, anger, anger, yelling and slander, and all malice. But be kind to one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as God also forgave you in Christ. "
(Ephesians 4: 31-32 NKJ60)