‘Why did you say that? Why did you do that? Why did you behave that way? This is not right?’ …and many more! The list is endless! Time and again I have to face such type of questions. I must confess that I have begun to listen to such questions once I arrived in Europe, specially in Rome. Initially I used to be sad to hear. But once I realized that these questions arise out of cultural differences, I began to enjoy. In fact each time I face such question, I sink into deep thoughts. I look at the sky. I prefer to look at the sky at night. The dark silence of the sky gives me deep meaning. I see my deep self. I see my inner world. The nakedness of my life presents to me another life. Then I sink again into deep. In darkness, in silence…I find the ‘Deep.’ Theologian Michal Paul Gallagher, in his book,
Dove e’ il tuo Dio, rightly says, God is found even in the darkness…I really do not know either I find God or not. But I am sure I meet something/someone DEEP.
During this summer I have had enormous encounters with the young people. These meetings opened my eyes to the reality that there is a great fear for DEEP. Our life has changed so much that we are afraid of Deep. We are happy with artificial, superficial and instant. This could be our relationship with each other as well as with God. Even we are afraid to go deep into ourselves. But in reality, in DEEP we find real meaning- joy and peace. And deep calls for deep…
