Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa- there are very few who have never heard her name. She has long been a woman of admiration for me. I am in awe that such a tiny woman left such a legacy of Christ's love. But, she didn't do it alone. He worked through her and only because she allowed Him to and fully submitted herself to Him.



You know, I read one time that her feet were so tiny and deformed because she took the leftover shoes- the ones that did not fit. She gave to everyone else first, not thinking of herself until those around her were taken care of. I think of this because my feet hurt today. Not sure why, just something weird going on and it drives me crazy! My feet HURT in certain shoes and so I change into more comfortable ones. Imagine taking those shoes that terribly hurt your feet, willingly and on purpose.


I know I am (probably more often than I'd like to admit) the one who stands in the way of Him using me. Not my age, not because I am a woman, not because of finances, but because of my lack of willingness to let go. As much as I want to allow Him and wait for Him to use me, I feel like I miss Him all too often. I believe that what I need sometimes instead of a quiet whisper is a megaphone in my ear!!


I challenge myself this day to release myself TOTALLY to Him. I want to strive to be like Christ. I pray to have a heart like Mother Teresa's. I pray that I will be able to move mountains to help those who need it the most.



So, here are just a few (times 10) of her quotes that I LOVE-

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Have a blessed night!

Amazed by His grace,

E