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SARAH

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From the Book of Genesis (16.1-2; 18,1-2.9-15; 21.1-2)
16, [ 1] Sarai, Abram's wife, did not give him children. But having an Egyptian slave named Hagar, [2] Sarai said to Abram, "Behold, the Lord has prevented me from having children, join to my slave, maybe I can have children by her." 18, [1] Then the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent in the heat of the day. [2] He looked up and saw three men standing near him. As soon as they saw, ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed to the ground, [9] Then he said: "Where is Sarah your wife?". He replied: "It 's there in the tent." [10] The Lord replied, "I will return to you a year from that date and then your wife Sarah have a son." Sarah was listening at the tent, which was behind him. [11] Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years, had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. [12] So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "I should have withered like to experience the pleasure, as my old gentleman." [13] But the Lord said to Abraham: "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I indeed bear a child, am old? [14] Is there anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time come back to you on the same date and Sara have a son. "[15] Then Sarah denied," I did not laugh, "because he was afraid, but he said:" Yes, you did laugh. " 21, [1] The Lord visited Sarah as he had said and did to Sarah as he had promised. [2] Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, in the time that God had set.

read these pages Genesis contains the story of Sarai Abram's wife even if the pages cited, they report the story of Hagar.
the story of Sara comes to each of us, is twofold: sterility and gratuity.
The Bible does not say much about Sarah's barren, but in dim light we can see his pain and suffering of all infertility, "Behold, the Lord has prevented me ... '(16.2).
This woman, sterile, it embodies the suffering for the lack of maternity, yet has within him a strong will not to resign and then allowed to use the methods. Sara is not the only woman in the Bible that is prevented, sterile: see, for example, Anna wife of Elkanah (See 1 Sam 1:1 ff).
Because of his great strength he was changing the name: "God also said to Abraham, stop calling your wife Sarai, henceforth her name is Sarah. through you I'll give you a son "(Gen 17.15-16).
Here is a word game that takes on different meanings in Hebrew: the by Sara Sara h . The name that ends with the letter the , as in Hebrew, some suffixes end of ownership, seems to emphasize the presumption of Sarai when he decided in his heart to give her maid to her husband to help ensure the offspring, so that want and that God promises. But that was not the help that Sarah could give to her husband, but from a Sarah able to give up all possessions to the benefit of the presumption of their own uterus (the meaning of the letter h ) The nature of woman and mother in charge of real children.
The name change, the Bible shows God's plan for the person, people, in fact, the name Sarah means "Princess Mia". Sarah, it will be the mother of many kings. This will power the Lord bless you, visit Abraham and makes a promise unprecedented.
The 'Inaudito "is present in the life of this couple, it becomes a meeting place because sterility is fruitful, because it will bear fruit: create!
The announcement that God does is unprecedented because it challenges the natural order, but "there is perhaps something impossible for the Lord?" . In
Bible, these are words that are repeated when God calls someone to carry out his plan of love (cf. Lk 1,19-20.37). These are words that are repeated every time when God visits to each of us and find some obstacle, when our life is like a lifeless desert, barren, " as a barren land without water" (Ps 62.2) , burned like a desert, like a dead end, a closed horizon without hope, as a huge void without waiting, as the womb of a woman incapable of generating. To thirst for God is already a gift of God Left to itself, the flesh is nothing but rejection, eyes closed, ears Turate, hardened heart (Mt 13.10-15).
Often this is our life! There is no point living to live, it makes sense to live if you praise God for the grace of God infinitely surpasses not only physical life, but one which gives it meaning.
is a story of faith that we have before us a faith that becomes a risk. "These are two distant horizons to which man must walk with a long and exhausting journey that depicts the dialectic of faith, always suspended wing promise and risk '(G. Ravasi).
But just because faith is transformed into risk, the faith of Sarah in front of words dell'Inaudito knows the doubt, suspicion, hesitation, suspension: "So Sarah laughed to herself and said: "I should have withered like to experience the pleasure, while my lord is old!" (18.21).
There is a bit 'of irony in the attitude of a reaction from Sarah and dell'Inaudito, the three characters (God).
The story of this woman teaches that there is a desperate situation that God does not know how to flip: "I shall return to you the same day and Sarah have a son (18.14). God is the reaction of fear and embarrassment and a certain self-defense "" I did not laugh "" (18,15). In the Bible
rice has several meanings, but Sarah laughed in his self-defense and we can read our laughter, our fiction before the Word of God, before his words that keep calling, but God knows that rice is a new humanity in turn, promise, assurance, life, a gift for each other ... because the Lord "will not call more Forsaken, and your wasteland, but you will be called My Delight and your land Married "(Is 62.4), the son born be named Isaac, meaning" YHWH laughed. "
Yes, God laughs before obstacles. His laughter sweeps all our doubts, fear, all evil men, "He who is seated in heaven if he laughs, the Lord makes a mockery" (Ps 2:4; see also Ps 37.13, 59.9).
"It's a rice disarm in the truest sense, depriving the apparent strength of his powerful dominance and arrogance of unbelief "(Gerhard Ebeling).
"In the time that God had laid down" (21:2). There is a time that God sets for Sarah, for each of us to visit. On time, the rice of God bringing victory over visiting Sarah's sterility, bringing the gift to create the miracle of birth, the transition from being infertile to be fruitful life, because a visit from God is to meet life. Generate
, for the Bible, not the expression of a natural law of God but the event staff where everything is transforms into a gift.
meeting with the life Sarah discovers "something more" that is where God's personal love for Sarah, it begins a new relationship, a new path. In the attitude of
Sarah seems to remember the words of Jesus: "Whoever remains in me bears much fruit. Who does not remain in me is thrown away "(John 15:5-6).
This is the dilemma posed by Jesus to his disciples to accept being grafted into Him or be deleted, because "without me ye can do nothing" (Jn 15:5).
Who is' in me. " Jesus emphasizes this remain in him as a source and goal of personal and community life, is the only evangelical and pastoral path of fertility because it has the fruitfulness of Christ who gave himself for love. The bear fruit depends on the personal relationship with Jesus the disciples to do so is sterile, dry, useless to themselves and to others.
"Then you are my disciples" (Jn 15:8). It is a meaningful conclusion. It was only in consequence of the disciples to remain in Christ and remain in him that from this comes the duty of the witness.
Even Sarah, in her life, discovering the "more", he stayed in the Word of the Lord, giving meaning and value his own life and that of others in generating all Isaac, and the smile of God, becoming mother of Israel.
Her motherhood becomes free until death, until it reaches the Earth that God promised to give.
Sarah died in one hundred twenty-seven years his gratuity was an example to all, even in a foreign land Abraham bought the land and Hittite, Ephron son of Zohar, the cave of Machpelah to bury Sarah (Genesis 23).

question
1. What situations of "sterility" evidence in your life and the society you live?
2. What is the meaning of the visitation of God to be ... of God in your life?
3. In your life, there is open to staff God where you meet and talk with friends?
4. How do you relate, in the society you live in a sterile manner or not?
5. What is the time that God has set for you?

prayer
You have a task, my soul, a great task, if you want. He looks seriously yourself, your being, your destiny, where you come from and where you posarti, seeks to know if life is what you live or if there is something more.
You have a task, my soul, cleansed, therefore, your life: consider, please, God and his mysteries, investigate what was before this universe and what it is for you, where it came from and what will his fate.
Here's your task, my soul, cleansed, therefore, your life. Go near to God speaking to you in His Son and you will know the way of joy. (St. Gregory Nazianzen, † 410)

actio
Ponder these words today and take them into your daily life:
"We are lutes, you the player. Are you not emitting sighs through them? We are flutes, but the breath is yours, O Lord! We are of the mountains, but the echo is yours, O Lord. "