{"id":329106,"date":"2017-04-21T01:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T23:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gospel-living-in-lifes-dire-straits\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:07:03","slug":"gospel-living-in-lifes-dire-straits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gospel-living-in-lifes-dire-straits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel living: in life\u2019s dire straits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Better work<\/strong> “After an accident I lost a good job, and my wife\u2019s salary was not enough for my family to get ahead. Yet Providence did not forget us, helping us to find small bits of work just at the right times so we could pull ourselves up. In the evening, together with the children, we prayed for help \u2013 not just for ourselves, but for all those in need. Six months after the accident, just when the economy in our country took a critical turn, I found a job that was better than the one I lost.” J. L. \u2013 Uruguay<\/a> The next room<\/strong> “I was in the hospital, lying in darkness because of my health and the medicine I was taking. I didn\u2019t know what to do to get out of it. I heard a bell ringing; someone in the next room was calling the nurse. I got up to see if I could lend a hand. All that was needed was to give someone some water. I stopped beside his bed, showing interest in his life and trying to listen deeply to his words. I don\u2019t know how, but suddenly I felt lighter.” T. d. M. \u2013 Italy<\/a> An unexpected gift<\/strong> “Having been married for 50 years, we have lived through \u2013 as Ecclesiastes says \u2013 times of joy and pain. One evening, in particularly tight circumstances, we were counting how much money we had left and pondering what we could buy to give the children something to eat. In that moment a friend called \u2013 he wanted to pass by after having received two turkeys as a gift to give us one. It\u2019s so true that we have a Father in heaven who never abandons us.” T. e R. \u2013 Poland<\/a> Change of plan<\/strong> “I travel often for work, so I have to make a detailed schedule of what I\u2019m doing, while staying ready to change my plans. I was surprised, in fact, when I realized that something unexpected, if it\u2019s taken from the hands of God, becomes something better than what I had planned myself. This \u201cmaking space for God\u201d is not just for when I travel, but in many other circumstances, and it is a true lesson on staying vigilant. Seeing the beautry of God\u2019s plans, even if it costs me to lose mine, I have to say that the \u201cinvisible director\u201d knows how to point the way to my true fulfilment, my true happiness.” T.M. \u2013 Poland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faced with the discouragement and powerlessness due to injustice, anxiety, dark moments, tight circumstances and the unexpected, Jesus can still shed light on our path. That is how it was for the disciples at Emmaus, and it can still be for each of us.<\/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-329106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329106","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=329106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}