“I HAVE
REDISCOVERED MY TRUE
PATRIMONY”
Economizing gives rise to a new way of looking at life

A professional found out how tightening the belt and taking over the job of cleaning the company bathrooms can give birth to a new gaze on life. I’m an architect with a studio, and currently employ eight people. I’ve never lacked for work, but in the past year, many clients have terminated their contracts because of financial problems, which has forced us to resize the company, reduce costs, and open other, more profitable sectors of activity. We’ve been forced to change our mindset. I had to cancel the contract with the company that cleaned the studio, and now I do the job myself. The other day, while I was cleaning the bathroom, I found myself offering this work to the Lord, asking Him that I may do this task with the awareness that I’m building my person, asking to be simple and available, and asking the same thing for my employees. I’ve discovered that my true patrimony is the Lord. So on this journey, I don’t want to lose anything of what I most love: my family, the sequela of the Movement—in short, my heart. At the end of this part of the journey, I’d like to find myself more a man, more united, more realistic, more trusting in divine providence, and more courageous. For a couple of years now, we’ve been meeting with a group of friends in this field of work. Ultimately, our encounters have the urgency of sharing our attempts and the journey that each of us discovers and travels, so that the others, too, may benefit from it in their professions and businesses. We don’t consider each other competitors, but journeying companions who share an ideal, the desire to learn to work like Jesus.
Carlos, Murcia (Spain)