What Hell Is Not by Alessandro D'Avenia

Author:Alessandro D'Avenia [D'Avenia, Alessandro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786072740
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2018-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

The sun is stuck behind the sea and the last stars are winding up like ivy in the twilight. How beautiful it would be if the sun were to rise on a new and changed city, full of gardens and men who work and love. Men whose work is a bridge between dreams and reality and not an exile from themselves. In the dark, a man inhabits the city of God.

I found heaven in hell.

It’s much smaller and briefer than hell.

It resembles the corner of a garden or a moment. But it’s everything.

It is the fulfillment of everything.

Of the seed in the rose.

Of man in man.

Of woman in woman.

Of God in all things.

And it triumphs in silence even when it shows just an incomplete face of a beauty that seems almost foreign. In exile.

Heaven becomes wider and nothing and no one can grab and cage it.

Intrepid like truth, indomitable like beauty.

Have pity on me for all the times that I have slowed the flowering.

Have pity on me, dear God, have pity on me for having built that hell through my own sloth. It’s not enough to avoid evil. One must also do good.

There is little in me today that evokes the light. But every seed hidden in the blindness of the earth is shaking. Perhaps that seed does not evoke the light but invokes it.

And so I invoke You. Like a seed.

Too small for a land so desolate and dark like my own.

Help me, dear God, to not remain alone.

Help me to find faith in You.

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