Sometimes we meet again stuck in situations that suffocate us. Or we always fall back into the same mistakes, even if we have made a thousand good intentions.
Saint Paul goes so far as to say: “in me there is the desire for good, but not the ability to implement it; in fact I do not do the good that I want, but the evil that I do not want” (Rom 7).
So, what really makes our life harmonious?
Is the beauty outside enough… or do you need something that harmonizes the heart?
There are places, like this city, Salzburgin which everything seems to speak of harmony: the music, the art, the elegance of the architecture, the nature that surrounds the city. Here one of the greatest musicians in history was able to transform notes into something that touches the soul.
And listening to his music we realize something: harmony is not accidental. It is the result of an order, a tension, a balance between different sounds.
Let’s start with a question: Is our life harmonious… or is it just full of noise?
We too, every day, are like instruments: full of possibilities, but also of contradictions. We desire the good, but we experience limitations. We seek happiness, but we often get lost in a thousand directions.
The Gospel offers us a surprising key.
Jesus says: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and everything else will be added to you” (Mt 6.33).
It’s like saying: if you find the center, everything else fits together. If you lose your center, even beautiful things become dissonant. Because the problem is not how many things you have in life, but whether they fit together. It’s not how full you are on the outside, but how unified you are on the inside.
Saint Paul expresses it like this: “Everything is done with love” (1Cor 16,14). Because it is love that creates harmony. It is love that holds together what would otherwise fall apart. It is love that transforms even wounds into music.
So perhaps the real risk is not living a difficult life, but living one out of tune life. A life where the parts do not speak to each other, where the heart goes one way and the choices go another.
And instead the beauty we seek outside is a call to something deeper: one inner beautya life granted, a peace that does not depend on circumstances.
Saint Augustine said: “Love and do what you want”. This is not a superficial phrase. It’s the secret of harmony: when you truly love, everything finds its place.
And perhaps this is precisely the meaning of the journey: not to fill life with things, but to grant it. Don’t always add new notes, but find the melody, often with the notes we have available.
So let’s start our day by tuning the soul with the prayer of the heart and let’s use all the notes we have to love.
Because in the end the question is not how many things you have done, but what music your life has been. And the most beautiful is not the perfect one, but the one who, even amidst fragility and silence, has learned to love.
