Main news for 9 February 2007

Have you noticed how widespread schizophrenia is in our time? Some specialists already refuse to draw a boundary between it and the norm. Because split consciousness, a double or even greater life, has actually become the norm. When we are in public, we are one thing, and when alone with ourselves, another. We live counting on the fact that no one will find out what we are like in solitude. We have lost wholeness, the integrity of life, because we think that when no one is looking at us, no one sees us. We have lost the sense of God's presence. But Jesus warns: what we keep inside ourselves as a secret gradually grows, taking hold of more and more of our "I," and finally breaks out. What is secret becomes manifest.

In order for such a catastrophe not to happen, Jesus offers us a whole, unified life, a life constantly standing before God, regardless of whether people see us at that moment or not. If there is nothing hidden, then the light is not frightening.