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«When I saw
that open gate
I took a deep breath,
I was happy. I remember that
I felt so good inside,
my heart was moved,
it was dancing.
The time had come
and inside of me I felt
the fullness of life»
It had been abandoned for a few years and we definitely found what you would find in an abandoned house: ruins, window frames without glass, but we started with strength and the beauty of love. Love was also there, once upon a time, stronger than our embarrassment, stronger than our fears or failings. It could’ve even been a failure but in that moment I didn’t think for one minute that it was, because inside of me there was a strength of love that wasn’t only human love, my love. I didn’t even know if I was able to love, but inside of me I had this courage, the ability to take a risk, to see beyond, to go against every failure. This, I can say now, was God’s love that had invaded my will, my freedom, my strength in an extremely weak moment. For me it was a moment in which I rediscovered my faith: I found a “concrete” and incarnated faith that wasn’t afraid to take risks. When I saw that open gate I took a deep breath, I was happy. I remember that I felt so good inside, my heart was moved, it was dancing. The time had come and inside of me I felt the fullness of life.
And so, day after day, the boys started to arrive. Honestly, we has stabilized one month to make communion among us, to pray more, to live the Community life. Instead, a few days later, three boys appeared infront of our gate and they asked us: “Is this a Community for drug addicts?”. We hadn’t defined it as a “Community for drug addicts”, but a Community for young people, lost in boredom, in their insecurities, unable to start and finish a story. We looked at each other and said: Drug addicts or not, they’re young” and so we said yes to them.
(from an interview with other Elvira)
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