{"id":341394,"date":"2012-09-18T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T09:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/is-god-still-love-during-times-of-illness\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:35","slug":"is-god-still-love-during-times-of-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/is-god-still-love-during-times-of-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Is God Still Love During Times of Illness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My name is Magued<\/strong> and I grew up in a Christian family. When I was three my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. This illness progressed until she was paralysed and blind. From when I was small I learned how to help her together with my dad, my brother and my sister. I dreamed that my mum would get well again, and be like my friends\u2019 mothers, but as time passed I realised that this was not to be.<\/p>\n

My siblings and I learned to accept this will of God, to believe that everything contributes to good for those who love God. And we became very united amongst us and were aware of a grace that helped us always.<\/p>\n

Six years ago we found out that my sister had a tumour. It was then that I went into crisis with God and could not accept that my sister was ill, so I asked God if I could take her place because I could have dealt with it better. As time passed I accepted my sister\u2019s illness, that despite the treatment, was not getting better.<\/p>\n

Four years ago my mother died and at that time I felt a great suffering and emptiness in my life. It was as though part of my heart had been detached and gone with her.<\/p>\n

Then two years ago, while having a check up about an eye problem, I found out that I had my mother\u2019s same illness. I had just finished university and thought I had a future in front of me…\u00a0 All of a sudden everything vanished. I was in anguish thinking that one day I would wake up paralysed or I would have lost my sight as she did.\u00a0 I felt it was the devil who tempted me to start doing everything immediately, even bad things, which later I would not be able to do.\u00a0 These temptations stopped when I understood that what made me happy was to live each day as if it were my last, in a deep relationship with God.<\/p>\n

Then I started a new job, and I met a girl, an angel, who was ready to carry with me all the difficulties that I might meet in future.\u00a0 Many of my friends say that they pray for me so that I may be cured, but I answer that I pray for them, so that each one of us is ill in some way.<\/p>\n

\"\"One evening a few months ago my sister phoned me when I was out with my friends, and asked me to come back because she did not feel well.\u00a0 I went home and sat beside her and we began to pray together. We were not used to doing this but it was as though a voice said to me: \u201cpray with her Magued.\u201d A little while later she felt worse, she leant her head on me and passed away.<\/p>\n

In recent months every now and then I had a relapse. I was not able to hold a pen, or I lost the feeling in an arm, and for a while I could not see properly which made the situation at work difficult. When these things happen I remember my mother and my sister, who despite their pain, they had eyes filled with joy and peace. It is as if they were saying to me: don\u2019t be afraid, continue believing in the Love of God and witness it with your life.<\/p>\n

(M.G. Egitto<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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The testimony of a young Christian Egyptian, shared at Genfest 2012 in Budapest, who continued to believe in the love of God even when suffering visited him and his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-341394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341394","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}