{"id":5260,"date":"2023-12-05T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abara2.wpenginepowered.com\/1000-joys-sorrows\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:14:17","slug":"1000-joys-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abara.org\/es\/1000-joys-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"1.000 alegr\u00edas y penas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>En este \u00faltimo mes de 2023, nos gustar\u00eda ofrecer algunos pensamientos sobre la idea de Peregrinaci\u00f3n, relacionados con nuestro trabajo y el de otros en la frontera de Texas \/ M\u00e9xico. Esta es la semana 1 de 4. Esta semana, una de nuestras Conectoras de Refugio, Clara, comparti\u00f3 algunos de sus pensamientos relacionados con la Respuesta Fronteriza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comunidad de Abara,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cuando empec\u00e9 a conocer el Borderplex de El Paso \/ Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez en enero de 2021, intent\u00e9 dar sentido a lo que estaba viendo y oyendo, y la \u00fanica frase que se me ocurri\u00f3 fue \u00e9sta: <strong>1.000 alegr\u00edas y penas<\/strong>. Fue esta sorprendente mezcla de luz y oscuridad lo que mantuvo mi atenci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Por un lado, estaba la oscuridad. Las historias de los viajes de los migrantes eran horribles: hambre, fr\u00edo, extorsi\u00f3n, secuestro, violaci\u00f3n. Y una vez que llegaban a la frontera, las familias se enfrentaban a circunstancias aparentemente imposibles: esperar en los albergues de Ju\u00e1rez (espacios abarrotados y con pocos recursos), e incluso si la gente cruzaba a Estados Unidos, es extremadamente dif\u00edcil ganar un caso de asilo, corren el riesgo de explotaci\u00f3n laboral, entre otras cosas.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, por otro lado, estaba la luz. Un d\u00eda Blanca nos llev\u00f3 a m\u00ed y a una joven madre soltera del albergue Buen Samaritano al centro comercial de Ju\u00e1rez. Comimos Wendy's, nos re\u00edmos y nos probamos gafas de sol. Fue tonto, divertido y normal. Yo era interna en aquel momento y Blanca me estaba ense\u00f1ando lo que significaba trabajar en Respuesta Fronteriza.<\/p>\n<p>En lo que observ\u00e9 que participaba Blanca era algo as\u00ed como una telara\u00f1a de relaciones y conexiones, docenas de personas formadas en organizaciones o iglesias o refugios que estaban creando un lugar de aterrizaje para todos estos seres humanos desplazados en Ju\u00e1rez y El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9? \u00bfSi hab\u00eda tanto dolor, si el problema era tan grande, tan complejo? O lo hac\u00edan porque Dios se lo hab\u00eda ordenado, o porque ellos mismos eran inmigrantes, o porque hab\u00edan aprendido por el camino, en la escuela o en otra parte, que su trabajo era sostener a los vulnerables a lo largo de su viaje. Hab\u00eda gente ayudando por todas partes, m\u00e1s de lo que jam\u00e1s hubiera imaginado. Las personas que hac\u00edan fuerte esta red eran tan dolorosamente hermosas para m\u00ed que decid\u00ed que har\u00eda lo posible por quedarme m\u00e1s tiempo y ver m\u00e1s. Padre Mike, Cecy, Marisa, Hermana Lily, Sami, Bethany, Alma, Tamy, Mari, Blanca, Gustavo, Abby, Omar. Hoy han pasado casi 3 a\u00f1os, y cada persona que mencion\u00e9 sigue comprometida con aliviar el sufrimiento en la frontera. La lista no hace m\u00e1s que crecer.<\/p>\n<p>A veces decimos que el prop\u00f3sito de Abara es \"afirmar la dignidad en medio de una situaci\u00f3n compleja que, de momento, tarda en cambiar\". Creo que lo que me inspira tanto de la web, de las personas que he enumerado antes, es que <strong>conozca<\/strong> no pueden detener la migraci\u00f3n. En <strong>conozca<\/strong> no pueden solucionar los problemas que provocan el desplazamiento de la gente de sus pa\u00edses de origen. Ven cu\u00e1ntas penas hay aqu\u00ed y <strong>no apartes la mirada<\/strong>\u00a1! Se quedan. Y yo ten\u00eda tantas ganas de unirme a ellos. <em>Porque aqu\u00ed tambi\u00e9n hay mil alegr\u00edas. Aqu\u00ed tambi\u00e9n hay mucha esperanza humana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aquellos que se empe\u00f1an obstinadamente en quedarse, que caminan a paso lento y firme en medio del dolor y los desaf\u00edos, anhelaba ponerme a su lado. Y ah\u00ed es donde encontr\u00e9 Abara, en una postura de escucha y generosidad dirigida a una comunidad arraigada a largo plazo en esta hermosa regi\u00f3n. Y me siento profundamente agradecida por desempe\u00f1ar un peque\u00f1o papel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En agradecimiento,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clara K. Duffy, LMSW<br \/>\nConector de refugios y facilitador de encuentros fronterizos, Abara<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En este \u00faltimo mes de 2023, nos gustar\u00eda ofrecer algunos pensamientos sobre la idea de Peregrinaci\u00f3n, relacionados con nuestro trabajo y el de otros en la frontera de Texas \/ M\u00e9xico. Esta es la semana 1 de 4. Esta semana, una de nuestras Conectoras de Refugio, Clara, comparti\u00f3 algunos de sus pensamientos relacionados con la Respuesta Fronteriza. 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