THE FABLE OF LENTILS "REFLECTION"
Dear Friends
Today I bring you a delicious dish to digest, nothing more and nothing less than ... lentils
This story was written 20 years ago, when religious communities began to not being able to care for sick and / or lack of young staff, in particular vocations could support the common life and coral. Then
began to consider mergers of convents, but no one would not leave her convent to another, nor the other community did not want to have another at home, a world very human of course, but aside from common sense and charity.
Today this problem is solved almost, my community for example, has received 2 communities and so have other monasteries, but the response does not occur or in the monasteries or in all different orders and religious congregations.
Well, do not entertain more Bon appetit!
THE FABLE OF LENTILS
Once upon a time ... a sower of lentils.
This was spreading his seed across the field hoping to gather a good harvest, especially when it came time to harvest, there found all his efforts rewarded.
lentils Selected by size and quality and placed in bags of ½ a kilo and kg lentils were as in more than once mixed with pebbles of the same color and size of lentils.
Sacks went to a store where they were separated and distributed by grocery stores.
had a seller who put them in his shop window sorted by size and quality, but wanted to test their quality before selling to the public, were some lentils cook faster than others, and took home bags of lentils for both classes.
When you get home put to soak lentils as usual, but not separated but threw them all together in the same container with water. Thought I would have enough to make a good stew of lentils with what to feed their many children.
But lentils from different bags, were furious at being mixed up and soaked releasing the dust of the earth.
Then a duckweed duckweed told the same size and flavor ... how we will share our juice and flavor with these others?
Another very hasty bob replied: "Oh yes it's true! these lentils are different from ours are smaller and numerous, No, we can not allow this barbarity, we would remove all our substance and lose our taste, that you worked hard to keep and preserve. No, definitely if we mix with them we lose our freedom, no, not talk! ".
But the other lentils were of little beauty and its size also murmured.
A duckweed duckweed told ... Look! ... How can we get together with these lentils so big, so beautiful and juicy?
To which another replied lentil ... Oh! I fear that when we bring to boil, as we are so small, we're going to undo.
The duckweed, very concerned she asked: "Why we will have to undo?
The duckweed that was very smart said, "'Well my friend, as they are smaller, soon to be cooking in the stew , we will dispose as they need more time cooking to be cooked to the point "
But he fell immediately interrupted conversation. There was thus a pea that had listened very attentively to the explanations of both lentils.
Chickpea came ... Hello! Forgive my intrusion, "I can give my opinion?, Oh yeah! bob replied that he was more worried.
Slowly chickpea said: "My friends, not worry, because although I deshagáis cook, stay a rich stew. Be quiet as a large and beautiful lentils, will eat, but you, my dear Ah! to you I not only eat but to be so broken in you will get wet "BREAD" so that there is not one of you at the plate.
hearing this, small lentils included a high honor that had been intended, and thus were very happy ready to be cooked with other lentils.
Chickpea meantime just because lentils are big and beautiful not agreed to be cooked in small lentils.
Poor chickpea!, How sad he was and thought: "When I fall into the stew as I'm older I will not be cooked or destroyed, and nobody will be eaten raw," and continued turning to an end when he discovered a great truth. "When you fall into the stew , but also no let me eat my substance and flavor, even a little. Ah, yes it's worth going to stew and give as the Fire request.
And this happy abode chickpea very comforted.
Meanwhile, the shopkeeper's wife, began to cook the lentils and threw them Salt and Water .
lentils stirred with all the fervor they were forced to share space stew with the same water and the same salt than their peers.
When the woman went to see were the lentils, are faced with a mess, its was all mashed cooked. And when he had to feed her offspring, decided to pass through the screen and saw that some lentils colarlas had only been wanted pelts and squeezing them to seize more and discovered the attempt, which also had small pebbles that looked the same as the lentils in form and color. But his surprise was more upset to discover in a pea puree and clear I could not stop there! and ate it with great surprise found it was cooked to perfection.
She ordered the puree in a dish and they ate with relish that strange finding tasty stew of lentils.
So the seller discovered that their merchandise was varied, which could be eaten with relish, despite not being an authentic stew of lentils.
THE MORAL :
The sower Jesus.-Lentils are the different religious orders and congregations. The bag is the world. Lentils rapid annealing, are people who despite their weaknesses are able to give God all they have and what they are.
large Lentils are those who by their selfishness and excuses, np persevere in living in the love of God and do not advertise with their lives following Christ.
The shelf is the mirror where men come and take us an example of our lives, sometimes we give them faith in God and at other times disappointed.
The choice of bags of lentils is called religious vocation
dust of the earth, are the criticisms charismatic.
The cooking time in lentil, is the ability of each of each lentil possesses is the ability possessed by each person devoted to surrender to God and live with just him.
The pot is the mystical body Jesus Christ, holy and sinful Church.
Chickpea, represent people who feel great pain to forget that God loves us and just as many differences that suffers Mother Church.
Bread is the joy that God feels for each person who wastes his life for the gospel.
Fire, is the love of God, he is willing to go through the wilderness to pray with greed, always hungry live in God with all that that has to know live in "The Cross and the glory."
Women retailer, it is the will of God.
Salt, to follow Christ.
water, the Holy Spirit.
The offspring, suffering humanity.
The sieve represents the Last Judgement, the skins of the lentils, are the opportunities God gives us to love him and we have not. The small stones are those that appear to be from God and let us down.
The cooked chickpeas are those who spend their lives doing good without complaint and a hidden life and almost unnoticed bear witness to Christ.
mashed lentils, is the union of the Church without maintaining rivalries between the different charisms.
The source, is charity
The cooked authentic, is to belong to Christ to reign in love.
And where is hell? One is in the strainer, which were trapped in there complained to share her life with her sisters
LES DEJO UN TENDERNESS BAG 
