"The whole journey of life is a journey
of preparation. Sometimes the Lord
has to do it quickly, as he did with the
good thief: he only had a few minutes
to prepare him and he did it. But the
normal run of things goes this way,
no?: in preparing our heart, eyes,
hearing to arrive in this homeland.
Because that is our homeland. 'But,
Father, I went to a philosopher and he
told me that all these thoughts are an
alienation, that we are alienated, that
life is this, the concrete, and no-one
knows what’s beyond ...'. Some think
this is so ... but Jesus tells us that it is
not so and says, 'Have faith in me'. This
I tell you is the truth: I do not cheat, I
do not deceive. "