Chapter

 1 1    |          about the apostle’s words: God has chosen the small ones
 2 2(6) |           receive” (At 20,35), and “God loves a cheerful giver” (
 3 2    |            free to open and welcome God. Summing up, poverty as
 4 3    |          and proclaiming that:  ~ ~“God is the only real richness
 5 3    |         first One and the only One: God. And all this, says still
 6 3    |        though he was in the form of God, did not count equality
 7 3    |             not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
 8 3    |            except for that far away God: ~ ~“My God, my God, why
 9 3    |           that far away God: ~ ~“My God, my God, why have you forsaken
10 3    |            away God: ~ ~“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (
11 3    |           start at the welcoming of God in Christ, which center
12 3    |            namely, the supremacy of God over everything and everyone.
13 3    | consequently, the total donation to God in Christ as the Only One
14 3    |                      confesses that God is the only richness of
15 3    |             root of poverty. To us, God/Christ is the only really
16 3    |          proclaim this supremacy of God and this availability to
17 3    |         freedom and availability to God and to the brothers, like
18 3    |     remaining open and available to God and the brothers. In effect,
19 3(12)|          the Incarnation the Son of God has in a way linked to each
20 3    |        communion (1Jh 1,3), because God is like this (1Jh 4,8,16),
21 3    |             puts at the disposal of God and the brothers his/her
22 4    |      existence that consecration to God and to the brothers makes
23 4    |          she does not consecrate to God to avoid familiar disturbances.
24 4    |             he/she can available to God and the brothers. ~ ~Consequently,
25 4    |             our life is a gift that God gave them in us. We cannot
26 4    |           cannot disappoint them or God. ~ ~ ~