NO GREATER LOVE
“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself. Ask and Seek and your Heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do, but how much love we put into the doing. It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving” ~ Mother Teresa
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10 (ESV)
Saint Teresa (1910-1997): Founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, and was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa in 2016. The primary objective of the charity mission was to look after the people, who nobody else was prepared to look after. She lived through two devastating events while serving in Calcutta: the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Hindu/Muslim violence in 1946. Yet, she kept going, serving, and ministering. Many times she and her fellow nuns were reduced to begging for funding and food for even themselves. I believe she soildered on in her life purpose amid the really hard times because her many daily prayers sustained the faith she had in God that He will provide (and He did). And, she believed that serving others was the fundamental principle of Jesus’ teachings. Her many prayers enlarged her heart for God’s work and her faithfulness molded her into a woman of courage who by faith dedicated her whole life, good and bad, to the calling of God to serve the poor and destitute around the world.
In 1952 Mother Teresa opened her first home for the dying so the poor and needy could die with dignity. In 1971 she was awarded the 1st Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and the Kennedy Prize. In 1972 she received the Nehru Prize “for promoting international peace and understanding”. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace”. Mother Teresa received many other prestigious awards in her lifetime and her selfless sacrifice is known worldwide. Yet when asked how to promote world peace, she replied, “Go home and love your family”. She is a symbol of charitable contribution to society, caregiving work, a peace maker, and one who embraced the very heart of God’s desires her whole life with the love and joy she poured into the poor. (Excerpts from www.biographyonline.net)
Are your Prayers many?
Do Your Prayers enlarge your heart to invite God’s very presence?
What is your life a symbol of today and Who are you Serving?