What Christian announcement is there for our family in transition?

Reflections on Luca 1, 26-38 of the group New lives, network of Christian families in transition

There is an announcement for everyone, an announcement that calls us, questions, accompanies.

Ours is a God who often bursts into our life exactly like the coming out of Figlə Transgender who is disrupting, unbalanced, breaking patterns, perhaps also to "disturb" the tranquility and long -term serenity.

But it is there, in this confusion of emotions, thoughts, sensations, perhaps bewilderment, anger and suffering, that the meeting takes place. In our fragility.

The disturbance, exactly like Mary's, is absolutely understandable, you have to cross the destabilization to get to the yes, to the deep welcome of a surprising novelty.

The unexpected announcement comes and teases everyday life but it is from this fracture that a new and different light can enter. Let's not let us scare by the disturbance, the coming out is a gift that the sons and daughters make parents by moving them from a sort of comfort area towards opening to the unknown, at the other, to the further as Maria had to travel her I walk from the announcement, to the cross, to the resurrection.

And Maria is the one who teach us the attitude to keep: keep and meditate what happens in the life of sons and daughters, look with the heart, reflect with reason but let what it is difficult to understand in the heart. It takes time to understand and bring deeply the new existential reality that they live and that calls us on a journey beyond the imagined, the expected, the hoped for, the desired.

The "not fear" call is cheerful, reassuring, makes us capable of dealing with difficulties despite fatigue. The force comes from above.

The yes does not mean not nourishing doubts or not trying uncertainties but it is a call to set off, to be ready to let yourself be upset by a God who also embodies in the fragility of a family that welcomes the coming out of Figlə in search of himself stessə. The invitation is to get up to bring the good news that everyone is a unique gift, loved and wanted by the Lord as it is. The profound vocation of a parent of Fglə T is this: to proclaim the prodigy of sons and daughters finally reconciled with them.

Maria is hesitant of what she does not know and sees bigger than her but then leaves room for the manifestation of an extraordinary project designed by the Lord for her just like sons and daughters T are desired and desired for the family they are donated to. And it is that family, not another, to be called to make the jump of trust and abandonment.

Mary's effort is understandable, she also lives her failures as mother (Jesus lost in the temple at 12 years old). Often it is not even recognized by the son himself and every time he must put himself back on the way, listen to in an "here I" who, in addition to concealing fear and fragility, is also an enthusiastic response to embrace the choice to be on the side of a son considered outside From the norm, a different as exactly happens to the parent of Figlə T to be loved as they manifest themselves. As for Maria it is a leap into the void, you do not know how to step step by step if not to accompany in love and with love.

So what's the point of an event like coming out? There is no answer at the beginning but it is built moment after moment in transforming sons and daughters into a new, unexpected gift that helps to expand the horizons of the heart, thoughts and actions beyond walls and prejudices towards The mission to dialogue with all the contexts that still struggle to welcome and recognize.

The family is given the certainty of being "full of grace", the blessing that is precisely "saying well" of the new reality and getting to proclaim it without fear even in understandable difficulties. The good news of the announcement is the invitation to live in fatigue leaving the guidance of the journey to a God who also comes to visit us and precisely in times of failure and lead us to a new fruitfulness that wins all infertility. And it is in this so difficult and delicate, that the sons and daughters T take us by the hand and escort us in new, unknown and unthinkable paths, a new long journey in which we are accompanied and accompanied.

The heart has much bigger resources than reason and it is there that the encounter with the new birth of Figlə T takes place that they only await to be welcome, Amatiə and recognized.

And theirs to life becomes ours to their life.