{"id":342874,"date":"2014-03-13T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gratitude\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:12:03","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-102514 alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chiara-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"398\" \/><strong>I love you<\/strong><br \/> not because I learned to tell you so,<br \/> not because my heart suggests these words to me,<br \/> not so much because faith<br \/> makes me believe that you are love,<br \/> not even for the sole reason that<br \/> you died for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love you<\/strong><br \/> because you entered into my life<br \/> more than the air in my lungs,<br \/> more than the blood in my veins.<br \/> You entered<br \/> where no one could enter<br \/> when no one could help me<br \/> every single time no one<br \/> could console me.<\/p>\n<p>Each day I have spoken to you.<br \/> Each hour I have looked to you<br \/> and in your face<br \/> I read the answer,<br \/> in your words<br \/> the explanation,<br \/> in your love<br \/> the solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love you<\/strong><br \/> because for so many years<br \/> you have lived with me<br \/> and I<br \/> have lived of You.<br \/> I drank from your law<br \/> and I did not realize it.<\/p>\n<p>I nourished myself on it,<br \/> gathered strength,<br \/> I was restored,<br \/> but I was unaware<br \/> like a child suckling at its mother\u2019s breast<br \/> but not yet knowing how to call her<br \/> with that sweet name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me be grateful<\/strong><br \/> \u2014 at least a little \u2014<br \/> in the time that is left to me<br \/> for the love<br \/> you have poured upon me<br \/> and that has compelled me<br \/> to tell you:<br \/> <strong>I love you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Chiara Lubich<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Essential Writings&#8221;<\/strong>, New City Press, New York 2007, pp132-133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poetical text of Chiara Lubich in which she plainly declares her immense gratitude to God, who, with infinite love, gently entered into her life \u201cmore than the air in her lungs\u201d.<\/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-342874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342874","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=342874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}