{"id":307964,"date":"2021-07-19T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/partnership\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:30","slug":"partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a partnership of perfect fellowship, which requires from us great faith in God’s love for his children. This mutual trust works miracles. We will see that, where we cannot do anything, Someone else has been at work, who has done immensely better than we could.<\/em> The greatest wisdom is to spend our time living the will of God perfectly in the present moment. Sometimes, however, such nagging thoughts assail us, either about the past or the future, or about the present, but concerning places or circumstances or people, to which we cannot directly devote ourselves, that it takes a huge effort to steer the rudder of life\u2019s ship and stay on course by doing what God wills of us in the present moment. A perfect response on our part requires of us a will, a decision, but above all a trust in God that can border on heroism. \u201cI can do nothing in that particular case, for that person dear to me who is\u00a0sick or in danger, for that complicated situation\u2026 \u201cSo I will do what God wants of me in this moment. I will study hard, I\u2019ll\u00a0sweep the house well, pray well, take good care of my children.\u2026 \u201cAnd God will attend to unravelling that tangled knot, comforting the\u00a0sufferer, resolving that unforeseen problem.\u201d This is a partnership of perfect fellowship. It requires of us great\u00a0faith in God\u2019s love for his children and this enables God, then, through our\u00a0response, to have faith in us. This mutual trust works miracles. We will see that, where we could do nothing, Someone else was truly at work and\u00a0did immensely better than we could. Our heroic act of trust will be rewarded. Our life, limited to a single\u00a0field, will acquire a new dimension. We will feel we are in touch with the Infinite, that which we yearn for, and our faith, gaining new vigour, will strengthen our charity, our love. We will no longer know the meaning of loneliness. We will see, more clearly\u00a0than ever, because it is our experience, that we are truly children of a Father\u00a0who can do all things. <\/p>\n

Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n

  Cf. Chiara Lubich Essential Writings New City Press, Hyde Park New York, 2007, pp 70-71<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a partnership of perfect fellowship, which requires from us great faith in God’s love for his children. This mutual trust works miracles. We will see that, where we cannot do anything, Someone else has been at work, who has done immensely better than we could.<\/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-307964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307964","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=307964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}