The Orange Squeezed

I prepared for a conference and decided to take an orange to the stage as a proposal for my class ...

I opened a conversation with a bright young man who was sitting in the front row, and I said:

• If I squeezed this orange as strong as I can, what could come out?

He looked at me as if he had been a little crazy and said:

• Juice, of course!
• Do you think apple juice could come out of it?
• Do not! (He laughed).
• What about grapefruit juice?
• Neither!
• What would come out of it?
• Orange juice, obviously.
• Why? Why, when I squeeze an orange, does orange juice come out?
• Well, it's an orange and that's what's inside.

I nodded and said:

• True. Let's suppose that this orange is not an orange, but that it is you and someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, and tells you something that you do not like; It offends you and out of you sale anger, hatred, bitterness, fear. Why sell this?

The answer that the young man gave was:

• Because that's what's inside.

This is one of the great lessons of life: What do we sell you when life squeezes you, when someone causes you pain or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of this, it is what is inside.

It does not matter who has the contraction, if it's your mother, your brother, your children, your boss, etc.

If someone says something you do not like, what you sell is what is inside; It's your choice! When someone has a presence and a love, it is because that is what has allowed them to be inside you.

Today there is an orange for you and me. Now, we have to reflect on what is inside you and me, because "the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart" [Matt. 15:18].

Jesus was "squeezed out" and only out of him, forgiveness, blood of love and mercy for us. He gave us a living example that, although they insulted him, they lacerated him, humiliated him and treated him worse than a criminal, only love will come out of him!

Treatments to fill with that free LOVE and live each day following their example ...
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