Tag: Mother Teresa

A Happiness Born Through Connection.

“The problem with this world,” Mother Teresa once shared, “is that we draw our family circle too small.”

And, she was right.

For at the end of each day, do we not ‘draw our blinds’? Blocking the needs of the many to preserve the sanctity of one?

Yet, throughout this world the voices still cry. Entire communities are being lost to the devastations of poverty, disease and global war. And, children find their sleep without the promise of tomorrow.

The Buddha taught that we must turn towards the sorrow in order to fully understand it. Likewise, that our own faith might be encouraged in helping another find theirs.

Only then may we finally begin to understand: true happiness can not exist in isolation. Rather, true happiness is born through our connection.

In peace, my loves…

Namaste ❤

That Which We Share.

Mother Teresa once reminded of the capacity of a true and giving love; sharing that we mustn’t mistake this gift of heart as a ‘single drop’ and nothing more.

Though humanity’s waters are vast, they are not without cause. Even that which seems insignificant by comparison, we must trust serves a greater bond.

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not there, I think the ocean would be less in missing it…”

The truth is that we never really know how a single act may impact the whole. I myself could recount a hundred stories born on the wings of kindness and gratitude.

Because…

What we give inevitably returns to us albeit in different form.

Someone once asked me why I ‘bother to write’. “If not for you, then who?” he mocked, hoping to dissuade the action from its intention.

“I write for everyone,” I answered simply in return, “and, such that no one should ever question whether or not they are loved.”

What we give is of impact, I promise you, my loves. And, that which we share – of infinite value.

In peace…

Namaste ❤

One Hope, One Love, One Purpose: The Legacy of Mother Teresa.

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.” – Mother Teresa

One of my most favorite quotes, from our beloved Mother Teresa – a woman who dedicated the majority of her life giving to “the unwanted, the unloved, and the uncared for.”

As the story is told, when Mother Teresa was just 8 years old, her Father fell suddenly ill and died. While the cause of his death remains a mystery, there are those who believe he was poisoned by ‘political enemies’.

In the years to follow, Mother Teresa grew extraordinarily close to her Mother – a woman who instilled in her a deep commitment to charity.

Although by no means wealthy, Drana Bojaxhiu extended an open invitation to the city’s destitute to dine with her family.

“My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others,” she counseled her daughter.

When Mother Teresa asked who the people eating with them were, her mother uniformly responded,

“Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people.”

It was while riding a train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills that Mother Teresa experienced her second and, by far, her greatest ‘calling.’

“I want Indian Nuns, Missionaries of Charity, who would be my fire of love amongst the poor, the sick, the dying and the little children,” she heard Christ say to her on the train that day. “You are I know the most incapable person—weak and sinful but just because you are that—I want to use You for My glory. Wilt thou refuse?”

It was in this moment that her legacy was born. With just 6 months of basic medical training, Mother Teresa voyaged for the first time to the slums of Calculatta – where she dedicated the rest of her life to those who ‘needed it more.’

Throughout her time there, she experienced many set backs – including, her own ‘crisis of faith. But still, she continued, undaunted, in her mission.

In one despairing letter to a confidant, she wrote, “Where is my Faith—even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness—My God—how painful is this unknown pain—I have no Faith—I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart — & make me suffer untold agony.” While such revelations are shocking considering her public image of perfect faith, they have also made Mother Teresa a more relatable and human figure to all those who experience doubt in their beliefs.

This is the strength of purpose, my loves; a force that carries us forward, even when our own faith may be waning.

And, offering perhaps our greatest hope for this world – a testimony that, with love, all things are possible.

So, my darlings, if I may ask of you – what one thing might we do today, to help carry hope into this world?