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Simply Loving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

One afternoon I went to visit my mother to bring her a few things, as I usually do. It was hot and she was still having her nap, so I left everything in the utility room so as not to wake her. When I was about to leave, I noticed that the grass along the pavement (in our town this task is handled by the municipality) had been cut and a bit of a mess had been left. I immediately thought that when she woke up, she would see the pavement in that state and start sweeping it, even though she shouldn\u2019t do that because it gives her back pain. So I went back to get a brush, because I know and started sweeping. This simple, small experience gave me the same joy I used to feel when I was a Gen 3, a teenager in the Focolare Movement, even though many years have passed. <\/p>\n\n

(D. C. \u2013 Argentina)<\/p>\n\n

While Shopping<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Yesterday I was at the supermarket. While I was looking at some products on a shelf, I noticed a man staring at me insistently. Since I didn\u2019t recognize him, I went on with my shopping, and so did he. A little later, though, as I was leaving, he was waiting for me and greeted me: \u201cDon\u2019t you remember me?\u201d Since his face didn\u2019t look familiar, I asked him to give me a clue. \u201cI\u2019m Stefan,\u201d he replied, \u201cyears ago you helped me a lot with a document you prepared for me. Look, I still have it!\u201d He opened his wallet, beaming and showed me an ID card that used to be issued to foreigners years ago. I looked at the date and saw it was from 1993, but still in perfect condition. Stefan said: \u201cIt\u2019s been thirty-two years, but I\u2019ve never forgotten how much you did for me and what that document meant to me at the time, so I\u2019ve always kept it in your memory. Thank you!\u201d Then he added: \u201cYou look just the same as back then.\u201d He didn\u2019t notice the wrinkles; he remembered the love. And love remains. <\/p>\n\n

(A.P. \u2013 Italy)<\/p>\n\n

Compiled by Maria Grazia Berretta<\/em>(From Il Vangelo del Giorno, Citt\u00e0 Nuova, Year X \u2013 No. 1, September\u2013October 2025)<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 Pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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The author of Psalm 121 invites us to lift our eyes and trust in the Lord who provides for each one of us. We can also experience this love by discovering, in everyday life, that we are called to be instruments of God for those around us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":389831,"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":[3286],"tags":[3349,3196],"class_list":["post-389832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389832","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=389832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389833,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389832\/revisions\/389833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}