Mother Teresa-----Good works are links that form a chain of love.

Mother Teresa's years and years and years of selfless service to the orphans and the poor in Calcutta is beyond extraordinary. It's legendary. She stands, above all, as a beacon, as the  example of charity and compassion, as a model believer in God.

Mother Teresa

She continues her mission even while, by her own ad-mission, not sensing God's presence during the latter decades. Even though she believes in  God ongoingly, she says doesn't sense God's presence. It's missing for her. Yet throughout her crisis of faith  she continues, tirelessly driven. And if (by her own admission) God her partner is missing, by definition she also continues alone. Yet she never flinches from keeping her promise to serve.

I totally get her spiritual heroism. I'm awed by it. It ... blows  ... me  ... away  ...

At this point in her play, the Bible has departed center stage as Werner enters stage right. I wonder what she'll say to Werner. I wonder what she'll ask him.

I'm not Mother Teresa. But if I were in her quandary, the first question I'd ask him is "If God's presence isn't  here, then what (or who's) presence is  here?".

The second question I'd ask him is "Is there really  something missing? Or is it just me creating the experience  there's something missing?".

Mother Teresa lives in possibility. That much is evident. It doesn't require convincing. She doesn't merely invent  the possibility of being loving, kind, and caring to all human beings - she personifies  the possibility of being loving, kind, and caring to all human beings. She's that possibility incarnate. If I could speak for Mother Teresa, if I could guess her intention simply from what I know about her and her work, I would say Mother Teresa's impossible promise  would be something like this:

"By the year 2020 all people will be adequately fed, clothed, and housed, will have access to health care and education, and will experience the joy of the very special love of Jesus Christ."

In her crisis of faith, even while grounded in possibility to a degree which calls for immediate beatification, Mother Teresa demonstrates something so essentially human it moves me to tears. She's grappling with who she really is  as context, as being, as pure naked presence, as "everythingnothing". That such a titanic presence of love as Mother Teresa should have the guts to tell the truth about her intimate, private, most cherished experience is nothing short of saintly. It's inspiring. It literally creates the space  for everyone to look at and to grapple with who we really are, for everyone to be in the conversation for transformation.

Who knows if Mother Teresa will once again sense God's presence? Only God and time will tell. What's possible, however, is during her inquiry with Werner Mother Teresa will re contextualize  who she considers herself to be and who she considers God to be. Out of re contextualization in the conversation for transformation, miracles occur.

At the completion of her inquiry, what would Mother Teresa say to Werner?

In my view of it she would suddenly burst out laughing, 

a happy twinkling belly laugh,

embrace Werner and say to him:

"I got it. So what!".

And then she'd get on the next flight back to Calcutta and continue, with renewed zest, her legendary mission in service to the orphans and the poor, complete and ecstatic, totally in the presence of and in love with Jesus Christ.

Mother Teresa Quotes On Giving and Serving Others

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother Teresa

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.

~Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

~Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes On God

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish

that He didn’t trust me so much.

~Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness,

of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the

Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

~Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a

love letter to the world.

~Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

~Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes On Poverty

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

~Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven

will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love

God better because of them.

~Mother Teresa

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.

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

~Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

~Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is

put into them that matters.

~Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can

be no more hurt, only more love.

~Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to

that person, a beautiful thing.

~Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to

love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve

hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved

in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our

love for each other must start.

~Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you

without leaving happier.

~Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

~Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To

keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

~Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

~Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

~Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother Teresa

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

~Mother teresa

Kindness is a language we all understand. Even the blind can see it and the deaf can hear it.

~ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Peace

A smile is the beginning of peace.

~Mother Teresa~

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

~Mother Teresa~  

 How you feel abut service to mankind  after reading this article--Neelanjan