{"id":1687,"date":"2014-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/WORDPRESS\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2021-08-15T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:29:20","slug":"understanding-one-s-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/archivio-scritti-en\/understanding-one-s-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding One\u2019s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Florence, 17 September 2000<\/h1>\n<p><em>How do we take the right path for our life? An answer of Chiara Lubich.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I want to correspond with all my being to God\u2019s love for me. It\u2019s not clear to me yet which way I should follow. How can I grow every day in choosing him in a radical and absolute way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chiara: She\u2019s asking two questions. First, how can I understand my way? <br \/>In other words: I don\u2019t know my way\u2026 and I\u2019d like to know it (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In order to understand your way \u2013 she intends the right way, the will of God for her \u2013 you must first of all pray, because if you are serious about following God\u2019s will, you become a laborer of Jesus, one of those laborers Jesus mentioned when he said that the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few, and he said &#8220;pray&#8221;, so we must pray. <br \/>So, to understand your way, those among you who might not know your way, remember that it is necessary to pray. <br \/>Ask Jesus: \u201cOpen my eyes, make me understand, open my heart, make me feel what you want.\u201d And then? Love. \u2026 We must love. We won\u2019t understand our way unless we love. God doesn\u2019t speak in noise, in murmurs, in emptiness. God speaks in love.<br \/>She also asks how she can become more radical and totally committed every day. <br \/>Training, training, training. This morning, while I was reading this question, I thought of the artistic athletes we sometimes see, for example, figure skating. They are really wonderful, and it\u2019s a joy to watch them. <br \/>Of course, sometimes, some fall. But they don\u2019t just sit there, discouraged. They get up and go ahead. And they gain other points. The fact that they fell doesn\u2019t mean that they are disqualified, not at all. <br \/>We must do the same: always begin again, training, training, always begin again, as if nothing happened. Training, training. <br \/>By dint of training ourselves, at first, we might correspond to God\u2019s love, let\u2019s say, three times a day, then six times a day, then sixty times a day, until we reach the point of corresponding the whole day through. <br \/>But it takes training, training.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"pdf\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"index.php?option=com_docman&amp;task=doc_download&amp;gid=1405\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"interno\" target=\"_self\" href=\"it\/documenti\/video\/1516-come-capire-la-propria-strada.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video<\/a> in italian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence, 17 September 2000 How do we take the right path for our life? An answer of Chiara Lubich. I want to correspond with all my being to God\u2019s love for me. It\u2019s not clear to me yet which way I should follow. How can I grow every day in choosing him in a radical and absolute way? Chiara: She\u2019s asking two questions. First, how can I understand my way? In other words: I don\u2019t know my way\u2026 and I\u2019d like to know it (&#8230;) In order to understand your way \u2013 she intends the right way, the will of God for her \u2013 you must first of all pray, because if you are serious about following God\u2019s will, you become a laborer of Jesus, one of those laborers Jesus mentioned when he said that the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few, and he said &#8220;pray&#8221;, so we must pray. So, to understand your way, those among you who might not know your way, remember that it is necessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1418,2421],"tag_documenti":[],"tag_documenti_traduzioni":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archivio-scritti-en","tag-1418","tag-export-cl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"tag_documenti_traduzioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiaralubich.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_documenti_traduzioni?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}