Fog in San Salvador
Driving to and from Appleton today for my grandson’s birthday party we drove through fog. The fog reminded me of El Salvador, although there the weather is usually sunny. It probably reminded me of this country since the suffering and death of the civil war has left the country in a foggy milieu. People are still trying to feel their way out of the deep darkness that covered this sunny land.
At times we all feel the fog of our minds. When we are sick or when our mind is overcrowded we fail to see what is around us and see little in front of us.
Some people seem to prefer the fog. They do not want to know the reality that surrounds them but stick to words and ideas that are easier to deal with than the contradictions of daily life.
USA society seems to live in a fog when it comes to the rest of the world. We see our needs and desires in El Salvador and elsewhere not the needs and desires of the people who occupy the country. Thus the cry we heard over and over again from the people of El Salvador to the USA: “Do not interfere, let us be.”
In the G.A.T.E. trip to Guatemala, ( Buried in Guatemala), Father Greg in his talk about economics had the same message for us. He told how the people of Guatemala would like to be an agricultural society but industrialization has been forced on them.
Soon the fog outside will pass but the fog we see the rest of the world will continue until, with awareness, we see what we see.
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