The Day after Valentine’s Day
“Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead;
I am like something thrown away.”
--An observation by Job (31:12)
One of the books in my library is a book by Malcolm Muggeridge, probably known best for his broadcasts for the British Broadcasting Company. The book is about Mother Teresa, titled Something Beautiful for God. One chapter of the book is a dialogue between them as Muggeridge tries to understand what motivated Mother Teresa and the sisters to compassionately reach out to people who felt a lot like Job felt (see the above quote). Here is what she shared about her work among the poor in Calcutta:
“In these twenty years of work amongst the people,
I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted
That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
Nowadays we have found medicine for lepers
and lepers can be cured.
There’s medicine for TB and consumptives can be cured.
For all kinds of diseases there are medicines and cures.
But for being unwanted, except there are willing hands to serve
and there’s a loving heart to love,
I don’t think this terrible disease of unwantedness
can ever be cured.”
Just thought you might want to ponder this quote as you go about life on the day after Valentine’s Day.
--Ben Keckler
02.15.12
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Daily Devotion - Thursday, June 30
A Mother Teresa Story
One day Mother Teresa was writing a letter to her fellow laborers in Calcutta, the Missionaries of Charity and their Co-Workers. Her goal was to inspire the workers as they performed their acts of mercy with people in need. She quoted from one of Cardinal Newman’s prayers and added her own thoughts. Pray with me today:
“Help me to spread thy fragrance everywhere I go—
let me preach thee without preaching, not by words but by example—
by the catching force;
let the sympathetic influence of what I do
be evidence of the full love my heart feels to thee.” (Newman)
She then continued saying, “Our works of love are nothing but works of peace. Let us do them with greater love and efficiency—each in her or his daily work both in your home and with your neighbor. Listen to the cry: I was hungry – not only for food, but for peace that comes from a pure heart; I was thirsty – not for water, but for peace that satiates the passionate thirst of passion for war; I was naked – not for clothes, but for that beautiful dignity of people for their bodies; I was homeless – not for a shelter made of bricks, but for a heart that understands, that covers, that loves.”
A prayer: God, may I act with mercy today. Amen.
--Ben Keckler
06.30.11
One day Mother Teresa was writing a letter to her fellow laborers in Calcutta, the Missionaries of Charity and their Co-Workers. Her goal was to inspire the workers as they performed their acts of mercy with people in need. She quoted from one of Cardinal Newman’s prayers and added her own thoughts. Pray with me today:
“Help me to spread thy fragrance everywhere I go—
let me preach thee without preaching, not by words but by example—
by the catching force;
let the sympathetic influence of what I do
be evidence of the full love my heart feels to thee.” (Newman)
She then continued saying, “Our works of love are nothing but works of peace. Let us do them with greater love and efficiency—each in her or his daily work both in your home and with your neighbor. Listen to the cry: I was hungry – not only for food, but for peace that comes from a pure heart; I was thirsty – not for water, but for peace that satiates the passionate thirst of passion for war; I was naked – not for clothes, but for that beautiful dignity of people for their bodies; I was homeless – not for a shelter made of bricks, but for a heart that understands, that covers, that loves.”
A prayer: God, may I act with mercy today. Amen.
--Ben Keckler
06.30.11
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Daily Devotion - Tuesday, February 15
The Day after Valentine’s Day
“Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead;
I am like something thrown away.”
--An observation by Job (31:12)
One of the books in my library is a book by Malcolm Muggeridge, probably known best for his broadcasts for the British Broadcasting Company. The book is about Mother Teresa, titled Something Beautiful For God. One chapter of the book is a dialog between them as Muggeridge tries to understand what motivated Mother Teresa and the sisters to compassionately reach out to people who felt a lot like Job felt (see the above quote). Here is what she shared about her work among the poor in Calcutta:
“In these twenty years of work amongst the people,
I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted
that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
Nowadays we have found medicine for lepers and lepers can be cured.
There’s medicine for TB and consumptives can be cured.
For all kinds of diseases there are medicines and cures.
But for being unwanted, except there are willing hands to serve
and there’s a loving heart to love,
I don’t think this terrible disease of unwantedness can ever be cured.”
Just thought you might want to ponder this quote as you go about how you live on the day after Valentine’s Day.
--Ben Keckler
02.15.11
“Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead;
I am like something thrown away.”
--An observation by Job (31:12)
One of the books in my library is a book by Malcolm Muggeridge, probably known best for his broadcasts for the British Broadcasting Company. The book is about Mother Teresa, titled Something Beautiful For God. One chapter of the book is a dialog between them as Muggeridge tries to understand what motivated Mother Teresa and the sisters to compassionately reach out to people who felt a lot like Job felt (see the above quote). Here is what she shared about her work among the poor in Calcutta:
“In these twenty years of work amongst the people,
I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted
that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
Nowadays we have found medicine for lepers and lepers can be cured.
There’s medicine for TB and consumptives can be cured.
For all kinds of diseases there are medicines and cures.
But for being unwanted, except there are willing hands to serve
and there’s a loving heart to love,
I don’t think this terrible disease of unwantedness can ever be cured.”
Just thought you might want to ponder this quote as you go about how you live on the day after Valentine’s Day.
--Ben Keckler
02.15.11
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