{"id":290632,"date":"2003-04-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gods-love-hiding-behind-an-illness\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:24","slug":"gods-love-hiding-behind-an-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gods-love-hiding-behind-an-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s love hiding behind an illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Just lately, I fell ill. As in other moments of my life, here too, I found God\u2019s super-abundant and generous love. As a result of chemotherapy, I lost my hair. Jesus\u2019 words are true: \u201cI was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink\u201d. In these days, I can say that I also experienced: \u201cI was hairless and you gave me your hair\u201d. In fact, three young girls cut their hair to make me a wig which was exactly the same colour as mine. On top of my sickness, there were the economic difficulties as well, not only due to the expensive treatments I had to undergo, but also because I could no longer continue giving the extra private lessons I was getting paid for. At first, I was terribly worried, so I tried to entrust everything to Mary; Jesus within me was asking me to trust. Yes, trust that this sorrowful physical trial, my doubts and temptations, were nothing but manifestations of God\u2019s purifying love. In a few days, his response came: my sick-leave compensation was higher than my regular salary; moreover, they gave me an added allowance for the lessons I was not able to give! This proved to me that if I remain in his love and put his words into practice, I can ask for what is needed and it will be given to me. I felt like a branch that was engrafted in the true vine. From my heart surged the song: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible not to believe in you; it\u2019s impossible not to make of you the Ideal of my life.\u201d   <strong>G.<\/strong> \u2013 Brazil  <strong>from<\/strong> <em>I Fioretti di Chiara e dei Focolari <\/em>\u2013 <strong>St. Paul Publications, p. 27<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving witness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}