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Every Little Thing We Do Is Important
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.
– Blessed Mother Teresa
How Does Silence Play a Part in Your Life?
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
– Mother Teresa
The coastal redwoods have been growing in silence for over 2,000 years
Just Smile!
I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
– Mother Teresa
Night Thoughts
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by William F. Bell.
Night Thoughts
It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs, and not our
plenitude. —Mother TeresaSomehow by day, no matter what,
I patch myself together whole,
But all my effort can’t offset
The nightly nakedness of soul
When angels in a dark descent
Strip off my integument.I am a cornered rebel pinched
Between night’s armies and my lack,
And when inside the bedclothes hunched
I feel the force of their attack,
I hardly know what I can do,
Exposed to God at half-past two.I once believed my being full,
But night thoughts prove that it is not.
Waking scared and miserable,
I scrape the bottom of the pot
And then must bow down and confess
Totality of emptiness.Kings once ventured, it is said,
To offer gold and frankincense,
But I send nothing from my bed
Except a tattered penitence,
So very little has accrued
From years of doubtful plenitude.God who tear away my cover,
Oh, pour your Spirit into me
Until my emptiness runs over
With golden superfluity,
And I bow down and offer up
Yourself within my earthen cup.Source: “Night Thoughts” by William Bell from America Magazine, Vol. 187 No.
18 (12/2/2002).
Silence Gives us a New Perspective
I share a piece of wisdom from Mother Teresa today.
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence.
The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence.
Silence gives us a new perspective.
– Blessed Mother Teresa.
Silence of the Moon, give us a new perspective
It’s Okay to Be Just a Drop in the Ocean
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.
– Blessed Mother Teresa
