{"id":341278,"date":"2012-08-02T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gymnastic-trials-looking-good\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:12","slug":"gymnastic-trials-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gymnastic-trials-looking-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnastic Trials: Looking Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67633\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120802-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"177\" \/>Her mother writes: \u201cA. was performing her piece at the end-of-the-year gymnastic trials and many people had come to watch. At one point one of her companions dropped her hoop. A. immediately gave her own to her companion and went to fetch the one that was dropped. Then she re-joined the choreography.<\/p>\n<p>The trainers were open-mouthed with surprise. One of them said to me: \u201cIn all my years of training, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this: an athlete who leaves her place in order to cover the mistake of another.\u201d I responded: \u201cIt\u2019s love that urges you to go beyond looking good; thinking of others makes you capable of things like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trainers all congratulated her. Then when were alone my daughter said to me; \u201cMamma, I didn\u2019t care about looking good. My friend was in trouble and I had to help her.\u201d It made me see how the Gospel that is slowly entering into her is making her a witness of her yes to Jesus. This episode occurred shortly after her return from the Gen4 congress that was entitled: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/2012\/06\/23\/un-amore-che-vuole-abbracciare-il-mondo\/\"><strong>Love that embraces the whole world<\/strong><\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(A. F. \u2013Italy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the month when the Word of Life invites us to live and give witness to our faith we offer the experience of a young girl during the end-of-the year gymnastic trials.<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341278","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=341278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}