If you want to draw your furrow straight attach your plow to a star
A well-known African proverb says, “If you want to draw your furrow straight, attach your plow to a star.” Farmers know well that to go straight in plowing a field, one must have a precise point of reference toward which to trace, one step at a time, one’s path. For MetaCometa, the star of reference was the one that, more than two millennia ago, some of the Magi saw popping up in the East. Like the Magi, we are all wayfarers, we are the creatures of the way, of the open road, of crossroads, of winding paths, of squares and stops. Life itself is a journey, a marvelous and intense pilgrimage that sometimes leads to crossing even dark valleys…
To say path is to say goal, is to say future: we do not have the luxury of regrets. We always need the courage to move forward, to look far, for it is the goal that also illuminates the way ahead. Hope looks toward what is not yet there, looks for what we would like to happen: our wishes, our dreams.
Today, as 25 years ago, we courageously decide not to abandon the call of the road, to take as many of us by the hand, to open the doors of our homes, close to the existences of all those who suffer, especially the little ones, answering the call of every child who needs a home, love and a future.
Our wish for the New Year now just around the corner is for everyone to “live together, to mingle, to meet each other, to take each other in our arms, to support each other, to participate in this somewhat chaotic tide that can turn into a true experience of fraternity, into a caravan of solidarity, into a holy pilgrimage.” (Pope Francis).
