Grow Christian

 

Look, oh Christian, at the precious plant

when touching the ground with its stem

It grows, grows and rises

as if it wanted to rise to heaven.

Look in its nest at the shy chick

when it can barely flap its wings

but it grows and grows until one day

dares to challenge the clouds with its flight.

See how it is born, calm and noisy

 the crystalline and placid stream

that becomes passing through the ground

in a powerful and fast-flowing river.

Watch the sun rise in the East

with a weak light, radiant, beautiful

that changes its star glow

in a brilliant, diamond-like light.

And you who have such a holy vocation

to live next to God up there in heaven

you have to grow like the plant

you have to grow like a chick.

YOU have, like the sun, to be fiery,

illuminating the world with your light

like the stream in the deep sea

turned into a river it drains gently.

Grow Christian, grow, it is your task,

watch all nature grow;

you have to reach the height

of the immense Rabbi of Galilee.

José María Castillo.