{"id":291704,"date":"2009-11-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-conductors-art\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:57","slug":"the-conductors-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-conductors-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The conductor\u2019s art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a winding mountain road, I was driving my elderly friend\u2019s car. He  knew every part of the route and with little hand signals was telling me  when to slow down, accelerate, and when to proceed with caution. I was  following these often barely perceptible signs out of the corner of my  eye, and was totally absorbed in the effort to understand him, and to  drive the way he would have driven. I imagined him to be the conductor  of an orchestra, who was very happy when I managed to perform my part  perfectly.  That evening Massimiliano, a friar from a long established friary,  phoned me. For some time he had been having difficulties with his  superior, and he told me that he had no more energy to deal with it, and  had decided to leave the friary.  I told him my story about the conductor and the orchestra, and realised  that he was listening in deep silence. Then he said, \u201cMaybe my mistake  was to expect something from my superior. But he cannot play my  instrument, he cannot take my place. All he can do is help me to be in  harmony with the others! I have to take up my instrument again, accept  my responsibilities and show my talent as part of the overall harmony.\u201d  He then began to cry.  At the end of the call, I realised that an idea that came from an act of  love had released a ray of light that someone, somewhere, was waiting  for.  <em>(T.M, Czech Republic<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An act of love can release a ray of light<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291704","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=291704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}