Mother Teresa

"In this life we cannot do great things.  We can only do small things with great love."


Mother Teresa, in my opinion, was a freaking genius.  She said some of the most inspirational things....EVER.  I kind of have a Mother Teresa obsession at the moment.  What I've learned from her throughout this "obsession"....is that life is about love.  That sounds simple, but it really isn't.  Love isn't a word but an action.  Love is service.  Love is hope.  Love is kindness.  Love is acceptance.  Love is given freely.  GOD is love.


I'm still grasping the concepts of love.  As I sit in school and some boy behind me annoys the crap out of me, I try to remember that I'm supposed to continue to love him.  When I'm walking down the hall to my next class, and I'm shoved into walls because some girl is running like a maniac, I try to remember to love her.  When I'm talking to one of my best friends and they completely interrupt me in the middle of a story, I'm tell myself that God loves me when I don't listen to him.  So, I'm working on the whole "love thing."  Loving people is much harder than it sounds.  It is a struggle everyday to CHOOSE to love people.  It would be SO much easier to just love yourself and not care about anyone else.  


Another thing I've realized about love....
Sometimes, it is sort of simple to love the random people at school that act like jerks all the time.  I don't KNOW those people.  I see them everyday, but I don't know their lives or what they've been through.  Maybe they're in pain or something isn't going so great for them at home.  When I think about that, it is a lot easier to love them, even if I don't want to.  In saying all that, I think it is easier to love strangers and those people you see but don't necessarily know than it is to love your own family.  I don't love my brothers and sisters the way I should.  I don't love my friends the way I should.  I definitely don't love my parents the way I should.  Yes, I love them....but do I act like it?  Not nearly enough.  That is my new challenge: to love the way God loves.  To love unconditionally.  To ACTIVELY show God to people.  God is love.  I want to be more like Him.