{"id":341844,"date":"2013-04-19T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/children-and-the-gospel-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:09:02","slug":"children-and-the-gospel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/children-and-the-gospel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-83798\" style=\"border: 0px;margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/>  \u00abMany of my companions at school ask to borrow my sharpener as it\u2019s a good one that sharpens pencils well. I always lend it but one morning they had asked me many times. So when another companion asked me again I said \u201cNO!\u201d quite strongly. He returned to his place quite sad and in that instant I remembered: \u201cBut Jesus is present even in him. I can\u2019t refuse him!\u201d. I called him back and gave him my sharpener with a big smile. He was happy and I too felt a joy within me.  In the evening, I along with my father and brother were watching a football match sitting on a sofa. My mother entered and said: \u201cDon&#8217;t any of you care about me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just come home\u00a0 from work and I have to get dinner ready. Now, who\u2019s going to help me set the table!?\u201d  I wanted to watch the game but I thought: \u201cI need to love Jesus even in my mum!\u201d I got up and went to the kitchen to set the table. I made my mother happy and then our team won 4-0!!! \u00bb.  (E.M. 8 years old, Italy)  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-83803\" style=\"border: 0px;margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130419-04-250x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"258\" \/>\u00abWe kids like to collect and play with cards of games like Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh and of football players. We carry them with us to school. I have 83 of them and some are rare. One day I was returning home with the school bus and I took out my Yu-gi-oh cards. One of my friends Lorenzo asked me to gift him a super rare card called <em>Steelswarm Moth<\/em>. At first I didn\u2019t want to because it was really important to me. But then I gave it to him to do an act of love and he was overjoyed.\u00bb  (V.F. \u2013 7 years, Italy)  \u00abOne day I returned home tired from the swimming pool. My mum asked me to tidy up my room and I didn\u2019t feel like doing it just then as I wanted to rest. Then I thought that there\u2019s Jesus also in my mum. I began to tidy the room and I felt so much joy in my heart that I didn\u2019t get more tired.\u00bb  (L.A. \u2013 8 years, Italy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glimpse into the daily life of 7 to 8 years old children, in dealing with their class companions and parents.<\/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-341844","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\/341844","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=341844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}