{"id":308294,"date":"2022-04-21T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/living-the-gospel-fruit-from-the-sowing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:43:21","slug":"living-the-gospel-fruit-from-the-sowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/living-the-gospel-fruit-from-the-sowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Gospel: fruit from the sowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gospel speaks of God\u2019s love. Sowing seeds that carry this proclamation and choosing to live it out is an expression of the beautiful, fruitful freedom we have been given.<\/em> Condominium meeting<\/strong> When notice of the condominium meeting arrived, my first thought was to find an excuse and avoid this commitment. My youngest son, hearing me complain about these meetings that I thought were useless, objected. \u201cBut Dad, it\u2019s an opportunity to make the whole building a family!\u201d I hadn\u2019t thought of that. But how could I turn that meeting into something beautiful and new? With the help of everyone in the house, we came up with a guessing game for the tenants\u2019 names, their number of children, type of work… Then we made a plan to set up visits and dinners, plus a list of birthdays and other celebrations. The more ideas came up, the more I looked forward to the meeting. And it was a real party. My wife had prepared sweets, the children had prepared cards to set up visits, and our daughter, who was good at drawing, had prepared diplomas and prizes for the winners. Never had the condominium meeting seemed so short as that evening. A different air was beginning to circulate in the building. M., Italy Dolls<\/strong> After Dad\u2019s death, thinking that Mom could no longer live alone, the question went around us children: \u201cWill we be forced to put Mom in a nursing home?\u201d My family lives in an apartment that is too small to house her. But my wife and I decided to trust in God\u2019s providence, and with this in mind we rented for Mom the apartment next to ours, which in the meantime had become available. It seemed like a gamble, but the arrival of our kids\u2019 grandmother enriched their lives and ours. She was very good at making fabric dolls and started giving them as gifts to those who had children. Then a person from the parish saw this and appreciated them, setting up a market where she could sell them along with other sewing items. Today, Mom\u2019s home has become a small craft centre and a school for those with free time. We are happy to see her joyful and practically rejuvenated in feeling useful. H., France The wallet<\/strong> I was visiting my mother in the small town where she lives. I don\u2019t know why, but before passing by, I felt the urge to have a cappuccino at the bar. Spotting a wallet on the floor in front of the cashier, I asked the cashier whose it was. She questioned the customers present, but the wallet did not belong to any of them. Upon examining the contents, the owner\u2019s name was an acquaintance of my mother\u2019s, so through her I could get it to him. The cashier knew my mother, so she trusted me with the wallet. Not far from the bar I saw the owner. I greeted him, we exchanged a few words and then I asked him if he had his wallet with him. When he realized he didn\u2019t have it, I showed it to him. When I left him, he couldn\u2019t stop thanking me. Later, thinking back to that sudden urge to stop by the bar, I realized that sometimes, unknowingly, we become instruments for doing good. M., Slovakia <\/p>\n

Edited by Maria Grazia Berretta<\/em><\/p>\n

From \u201cIl Vangelo del Giorno\u201d, Citt\u00e0 Nuova,<\/em> year VIII, n.2, March\u2013April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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