What saves me from nothingness? Everything. Being made flesh. I have been in confinement at home in Barcelona for days. No amount of pages would be sufficient for me to write down everything that is flourishing inside me as awareness of myself. What can we contribute to the world today? To live and share with men the certainty of a Presence. I will tell you an example from this afternoon.

In Madrid, my hometown, I have many friends whose parents are in a critical condition. I have a group of childhood friends, friends from my village, quite wealthy people. Most of them have received the Christian tradition from their families, but very few of them live by faith.

One of these friends wrote in our WhatsApp group to say that the mother of a childhood friend of ours, who is not in the WhatsApp group, had died of Covid-19. This friend had been one of my first adolescent loves. I have not seen her in five years. I usually text her on her birthday. I wrote her a message saying, "I have been told that your mother has passed away. This moment that we are asked to live is such a mystery! Have faith that God has welcomed her into His bosom. There, where everything is new, good and true. When you can, tell me and I will call you. I will pray for you."

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I had just sent the message when she called me. She was crying inconsolably. She said, "Repeat what you wrote to me on WhatsApp, tell me again that she is alive." I told her again. I told her, "Everything would be absurd if life ended like this." I told her about my mother and the certainty I have of where she is now. "How do you know that?" I told her about my encounter with Christ when I was 16. She knew me very well then. She remembers how I changed and how hard it was for me to explain it to her. She calmed down, and it was impressive. She stopped crying. She calmed down. Who soothed her? Only Jesus is able to soothe someone like that in such a situation. Just like Nain's widow: "Woman, do not cry."

Before hanging up, she said to me: "If twenty-five years ago someone had told me that something like this was going to happen to me and that it would have been you who said such things to me, out of twenty possible people, you would have been option number twenty-one." God chooses nothingness to be present. He did so today.

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