{"id":305760,"date":"2017-12-23T01:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/christmas-the-god-of-the-little-ones-and-those-who-are-distant\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:05","slug":"christmas-the-god-of-the-little-ones-and-those-who-are-distant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/christmas-the-god-of-the-little-ones-and-those-who-are-distant\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, the God of the little ones and those who are distant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A child who gets lost winds up in a place that\u2019s not home.<\/strong>  <strong>Yes, at Christmas time God got lost<\/strong> \u2013 not only like a boy child, but as a child \u2013 in a place where he was no longer at home.  <strong>He didn\u2019t remain within the enclosed happiness of Heaven, <\/strong>or within the confines of our devotional space. He got lost for the little ones and the poor, for those who are sick and in mourning, for sinners, for those we consider far from God, those we think have nothing to do with God.  <strong>God got lost right where the prodigal son got lost <\/strong>\u2013 far from his father\u2019s home \u2013 so he could return to the Father in him and with him.  <strong>God got lost as a child <\/strong>not by mistake, but by the most divine gesture God could make.  <strong>God is the God of all, or else he isn\u2019t God. <\/strong>God is the God of the little ones and the ones far off, or else he isn\u2019t God.  <strong>\u201cLet yourself be found where you, God, were lost as a child. <\/strong>Yes, let us become a child in whom you lose yourself for others, for everybody!\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/?s=+Klaus+Hemmerle\">Klaus Hemmerle<\/a>.\u00a0La luce dentro le cose (Rome: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/categoria-prodotto\/libro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/a>, <\/em>1998) 395.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The God Child invites us to look for him in those who are least, putting into action a culture of welcome and inclusion. And, as children, to feel that we are acknowledged and welcomed by him.<\/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-305760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305760","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=305760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}