{"id":306798,"date":"2019-02-19T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/living-the-gospel-small-steps-towards-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:39:00","slug":"living-the-gospel-small-steps-towards-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-gospel-small-steps-towards-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Gospel: small steps towards peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Small things can change society around us<\/em>  <strong>The condominium<\/strong> A very tense situation arose in my condominium after one of my neighbours, who hadn\u2019t been at the last residents\u2019 meeting, sent everyone a formal notice complaining about work carried out on the building which he considered to be illegal. To clear up the situation, I tried to convince the administrator to hold another meeting. Finally, after a lot of trouble, a meeting was held, and the issue was resolved. Since then the situation has really changed. This neighbour is on good terms with everyone and there is a better atmosphere in the condominium. (Alessandra \u2013 Italy)  <strong>My grandfather<\/strong> My grandfather has come to live with us because he has a problem with his eyes and needs a check-up every month. One day, while we were at the doctor\u2019s, I opened my handbag and realised I had left my purse at home. Not knowing how I would pay for the appointment, I entrusted myself to God. Just as I was leaving, the doctor took me aside and said, \u201cThere is no charge this time\u201d. He also offered me some free medicine samples. I understood that God does not abandon me if I do things out of love. (Arze \u2013 Lebanon)  <strong>The parcel<\/strong> One day a parcel was delivered to the halls of residence where I live containing jams, conserves and various items of clothing. My parents hadn\u2019t told me they were going to send me a parcel like this. Together with other students who also try to live the Gospel, we decided to give everything to the students we felt needed it most. A few days later, in the porter\u2019s lodge, I overheard a student asking about a parcel that had been sent to him. I suddenly realised the mistake what had gone wrong and that it was because our surnames are nearly the same. I told him everything and we really laughed together. When I told my family what had happened they sent me a parcel for him that was even bigger. That day a real friendship began between us. (C.d.F. \u2013 Czech Republic)  <strong>The supermarket trolleys<\/strong> When I had finished my shopping in the supermarket and was putting back my trolley, I noticed some plastic gloves and vegetable bags in the other trolleys that hadn\u2019t been used. I decided I could take them out and put them in the recycling bin. A little act of love for the next customers. (Annalisa \u2013 Switzerland) <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Edited by Chiara Favotti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small things can change society around us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-306798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306798","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}