1. WOL give value to suffering
When we think of our life, Chiara says, we sometimes see it as a harmonious succession of days in which we try to do better every day, becoming more perfect in our job or our schoolwork or spending time with our family, or in our meetings, or in sports or fun times, doing everything more perfectly, in peace and harmony It is always our hope that things will go well like this.
However, at times our “Holy Journey” is not like this, because God wants it to go differently from what we think So he introduces other elements into our life, things He wills or permits to happen, so that our life will take on its true meaning and we will reach the goal we were created for That’s when physical or spiritual sufferings enter our life. Sometimes we have an illness, or any one of a thousand other sufferings that speak more of death than life.
Why? It is because God wants death? No, not at all! God loves life, but he wants us to have a very full life, very fruitful, a life we would never imagine, no matter how much we aim at what is good, positive and peaceful.
This word of life uses the example of someone who is planting seeds. The seeds have to die to give new life to the plant, just like we have to suffer and
work and then gather the fruits of our effort, like the farmer gathers in the crop, which comes from the death of the seed.
How can we live this Word of Life? We have to give value to suffering, whether it is big or small, and see it as something very important. In particular, give value to all the effort it takes to love others, because that is our special duty. It is an effort that generates life!
And we should never give up, even when we don’t see the results of our efforts. Let’s never get tired of doing good, because the fruits will come, in due time - maybe from somewhere else, but they will come.
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I suffered a lot when my parents got divorced. However, when I met the Young for Unity, I heard them talk about Jesus on the cross, who was abandoned by everyone, but he never stopped loving. So I made up my mind to do the same. I
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told myself: I can keep on loving.” Before that I didn’t get along with my dad and I invented a thousand reasons not to see him too often. Now I realized that if I acted like that, I didn’t understand anything about love. So I started to get out of my little “shell” and went to spend time with my dad. Incredibly, our relationship improved! My advice to all those who live through difficult moments is to throw yourself into loving, because love overcomes everything, love conquers all! [Francesca – Italy]
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“Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.”
[from Psalm 126, verse 5]
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“Without giving up”