About a Girl
So there was this girl named Agnes. Born on a hot august day not too long ago. She has an average upbringing and time is flying by now and in a flash she is twelve years old, and probably a typical pre-teen right? Wrong. This twelve year old feels the call of God to be an agent of love to the world. So when she's 18 she believed the best way to do this would be to leave her home at 18 and join a Irish community of nuns bound for India.
She did do it. She became a teacher in St. Mare's School in Calcutta. However, the suffering and the poverty outside the walls of the convent overwhelmed her heart. So at the age of 38 she left the convent to work among poorest of the poor. The people no-one cared about. She had no funds. No support team. No great skills. All she had was the heart of Christ, and He was smiling.
After her step of faith the Lord honored her. She began an open aired school for the children of the slums. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers and financial support was also forthcoming. Soon she would start her own order called "the missionaries of charity". Before long her order would have influence and other offshoots in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. So the Lord has his hand on it...I guess you could say...By the end of her life more than 40 countries were and still are influenced by this order.
The Lord would honor this once little girl now little women further. Her humble inspire and charisma got her to speak all over the world. The lit&le women from Macedonia was now in front of kings and presidents. In maybe my favorite story of her. She is in Washington D.C., there is a Q&A I think going on about abortion. This woman stands up and says that she heard America doesn't want its babies, and pleaded with us to give them to her, because she wants them!
You know I once heard a quote that has often made me wonder. "The world has yet to see what one man could do, utterly and fully devoted to Christ". I'm not sure I agree with that, but I will say the world has seen what one woman did. Oh...You might know her as Theresa.
She did do it. She became a teacher in St. Mare's School in Calcutta. However, the suffering and the poverty outside the walls of the convent overwhelmed her heart. So at the age of 38 she left the convent to work among poorest of the poor. The people no-one cared about. She had no funds. No support team. No great skills. All she had was the heart of Christ, and He was smiling.
After her step of faith the Lord honored her. She began an open aired school for the children of the slums. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers and financial support was also forthcoming. Soon she would start her own order called "the missionaries of charity". Before long her order would have influence and other offshoots in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. So the Lord has his hand on it...I guess you could say...By the end of her life more than 40 countries were and still are influenced by this order.
The Lord would honor this once little girl now little women further. Her humble inspire and charisma got her to speak all over the world. The lit&le women from Macedonia was now in front of kings and presidents. In maybe my favorite story of her. She is in Washington D.C., there is a Q&A I think going on about abortion. This woman stands up and says that she heard America doesn't want its babies, and pleaded with us to give them to her, because she wants them!
You know I once heard a quote that has often made me wonder. "The world has yet to see what one man could do, utterly and fully devoted to Christ". I'm not sure I agree with that, but I will say the world has seen what one woman did. Oh...You might know her as Theresa.
posted by K at 7:07 AM
1 Comments:
AlI...i was really very encouraged by your response and what God is teaching to mother theresas words...the Lord is really using this prayer of hers...
"Dear Jesus, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere i go. flood my sould with Thy spirit and love.Penetrate and posses my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then i shall begin to shine as you shine so to sine as to be a light to others."
I am very encouraged by you and your words...much love
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