Danger of collapse

In 1989 I was studying Psychiatry and although I specialized in treating adults, I had to do a brief rotation through the specialty for children and I did it at the 'Pedro Borrás' children's hospital. A majestic multi-story castle-like building, an architectural beauty of our capital and with a great income capacity.

That same year it was closed for repairs and sadly time began to run and with it came vandalism. One fine day the windows and doors disappeared, the bathrooms were destroyed without the furniture they used to have, the tiles on the walls disappeared and nobody noticed or at least that is what could be supposed.

25 years have passed since then, the building looks like a sad corpse, but it still stands as a reminder of how anesthetized the human being can live, who remains alienated seeing the destruction come little by little. Could a building be so weak that it has managed to survive the ravages of time without anyone noticing its presence for 25 years? You can already see interior walls from which bricks have been subtracted. We know what its end is, there is no remedy.

We are not that different from this building, nor are we from those who allowed this to reach this deplorable state. We are a temple, the temple in which the Holy Spirit of God rests. But sometimes we fall into a state of alienation and do not stop to confront ourselves and explore the state of the walls of our faith.

And in this way vandalism begins to take over our soul and we begin to call the good bad and the bad good (Isaiah 5:20).

We lose the line between what honors our Father and what dishonors him and flirt with the world saying that we are strong and we stand firm (1 Corinthians 10:12), not realizing that our foundations have been removed and our walls are no longer. they are so safe. God save us. If at that moment a flood begins, we will not even have where to protect ourselves.

Unless we are not alienated, we feel the need for daily dialogue with our Maker, we do not neglect the Spirit of the Son that lives in our hearts and cries out for us (Galatians 4: 6)

Unless our soul thaws and every day we seek the warmth and shelter of the one who tells us “With eternal love I have loved you; therefore, I have prolonged my mercy to you ”Jeremiah 31: 3 and“ My grace is sufficient for you ”2 Corinthians 12: 9

Unless we remember that we are branches and that it is important that we bear fruit, but much more important is that we cling to the trunk (John 15: 1-11)

Unless our blood is hers and our thirst is only quenched by her living water and we beg for her on our knees saying: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

Unless we trade our life for his. (Galatians 2:20)