Mons. Luis Cabrera, who is in Rome for a meeting of bishops, sent me a video with a message that corresponds to the women’s march, touching, challenging. Thousands of Hebrew, Muslim, Christian and Palestinian women walk together in Israel for peace. And it has a message: Israeli singer Yael Deckelbaum sings the song Prayer of the Mothers together with women and mothers of all religions, showing what music can change. A total female wonder worth a thousand words.
The Women Wage Peace movement emerged during the escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in 2014, 9 years ago. Today, with a much more violent war, will women be able to raise their voices and sing in the midst of so much anguish and so many broken lives? Would they be effective in the midst of so much terror and suffering?
The song talks about everyday life, because peace is, among other things, the joy of simple things experienced with admiration for the first discovery: the miracles of the wind, food, the sound of a drum, a child’s questions, a lover’s kiss.
“Whisper of the ocean wind, blowing from afar. And the hanging clothes hit the shadow on the walls. Between heaven and earth there are people who want to live in peace. Don’t give up, keep dreaming of peace and prosperity. When will the walls of fear melt away?”
Similar questions, in a different context, are ours. We have just gone through elections that polarized the country, already steeped in multiple internal divisions, by culture, by political options, by geographical regions, to which are added fear, insecurity, mafias, organized crime groups, GDO. (Doesn’t it seem to you that criminals are those who officially recognize themselves as organized and proudly say so as an introductory letter?).
Citizens must not just wait and ask, they must contribute… and face the problems they have.
Each voice represents, apart from choice, dream and passion, hope. We vote with emotions, with feelings. Therefore, in addition to accepting the results, we must respect people who feel lost, hurt and disoriented. It’s time for a truce. The conciliatory tone in the first statements of political actors is excellent, at least those who live in the country.
We need an emotional, ethical, political, social uprising to face the debacle and join forces in a common project that transcends ideologies. We must face together the fear that silences us, closedness, sadness and hopelessness. Floods and other natural disasters are probably waiting for us, we can partially prevent them, but nature is generally stronger than us.
On the other hand, corruption that eats away at us, vaccines that immobilize us, insecurity, intolerable violence, unemployment, drug trafficking, general public corruption, lack of health and education, stalking of drug dealers, murderers, lack of work, we must face these and others together social problems.
Citizens must not just wait and search, they must join forces, come to an agreement and bravely face the great problems they face. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso

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