{"id":156779,"date":"2021-09-30T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/?p=156779"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:21:42","slug":"kelma-tal-hajja-ta-ottubru-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/en\/kelma-tal-hajja-ta-ottubru-3\/","title":{"rendered":"October Word of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Oct-21-ENG43032.pdf\">Download pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;We know that all things work together for good for those who love God&#8221; <\/em>(Rom 8:28).<\/p>\n<p>The Word we are proposing to live this month is taken from Paul\u2019s letter to the Romans. This is a long text, full of reflections and teachings and was written before his departure for Rome. Its purpose was to prepare the community that he did not know personally for his visit. Chapter 8 in particular emphasises new life according to the Spirit and the promise of eternal life that awaits individuals, peoples and the entire universe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We know that all things work together for good for those who love God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every word of this sentence is full of meaning. Paul proclaims that, first and foremost, as Christians we have come to know God\u2019s love and are aware that every human experience is part of God\u2019s great plan of salvation. Everything \u2013 Paul says \u2013 contributes to the fulfilment of this plan: suffering, persecution, personal failures and weaknesses, but above all, the action of God\u2019s Spirit in the hearts of the people who welcome him. The Spirit still gathers up the cries of humanity and all of creation [i] and makes them his own: this is the guarantee that God\u2019s plan will be fulfilled.Our part, should be to actively respond to God\u2019s love by loving and entrusting ourselves and all our needs to the Father. We should witness to the hope in the new heavens and new earth [ii] that he prepares for those who trust in him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We know that all things work together for good for those who love God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How, then, should we welcome and accept this demanding proposal in our everyday lives?<\/p>\n<p>Focolare founder, Chiara Lubich, suggested: \u2018First of all, we must never stop at the purely external, material or worldly aspect of things, but believe that every fact is a message with which God expresses his love for us. We will then see how life which may seem to us like a piece of material that is full of knots and threads woven together in a haphazard way, is, in reality, something else: it is the marvellous design that God\u2019s love is weaving on the basis of our faith. Secondly, we must trustingly and totally abandon ourselves to this love at all times, both in small and large things that happen in life. Indeed, if we know how to entrust ourselves to God\u2019s love in ordinary circumstances, he will give us the strength to entrust ourselves to him even in the most difficult moments, such as when we suffer or experience illness or at the very moment of death.<\/p>\n<p>So let us try to live in this way, not out of self-interest \u2013 so that God can show us his plans and we find consolation from him \u2013 but only out of love. We will see how this trusting abandonment is a source of light and infinite peace for us and for many others.\u2019 [iii] Let\u2019s trust in God when we have difficult choices to make, just as O.L. from Guatemala did. \u2018I was working as a cook in an old people\u2019s home. From down the corridor, I heard an old lady asking for a drink of water. I knew the regulations stated that I should not leave the kitchen but I poured some water and gently offered it to her. The old lady\u2019s eyes lit up.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the glass, she took my hand and said, \u201cStay with me for ten minutes!\u201d I explained that I shouldn\u2019t and that I risked being fired from my job. But that look of hers \u2026 I stayed. She asked me to pray together: \u201cOur Father\u2026\u201d. And at the end she said, \u201cSing something please.\u201d I remembered the words of \u201cWe will take nothing with us, only love\u2026\u201d. The other residents stared at us.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was happy and said, \u201cGod bless you, my daughter,\u201d and died shortly afterwards. I lost my job because I had left the kitchen. My extended family needed my financial support, but I was happy and at peace. I had responded to God and that woman was not alone when she took the most important step in life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Letizia Magri<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[i] Cf. Rom 8:22-27<br \/>\n[ii] Cf. 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