Mother Teresa

It is alot more difficult to love than we actually think it is. To love is to love unconditionally. It is to love everyone and everything unconditionally and not someone or a few people uncontrollably.

Mother Teresa understood how to love. She learnt it a very hard way, but nonetheless, experience is the greatest teacher.

One day, whilst returning home from work, she found a person dying in the street. Ashamed by the indiginity of death, she held him so that at least that person would have an easier passing.

This moment changed Mother Teresa's life. She changed from being commited to her life and her pleasures to devoting herself to God, as she believed the best way to serve God was to help those that he had blessed the least.

There are many lessons we can learn from the Angel of Calcutta.

We can learn of success. Mother Teresa changed the way she lived from a convenitonal 'successful' existence to one in which she abandoned today's values and followed her own calling. To be true to yourself is the greatest success, no matter how late it begins.

We can learn alot about people. Very often it is the people with the least to offer or to give that are the humblest and most honest people that are alive. Life is often a very good teacher and the harder the lessons, the greater the student's understanding of the real issues at heart.

Finally, Mother Teresa gave up what she had to the people who needed it most. She said that all she had was her love. Perhaps that is enough.

We often forget that we are alone in life. We are often caught up in believing that our problems are the only things that matter. I have a problem at home, my bank balance is poor, work is hard. These questions often dominate our minds. In truth we are very fortuate and our problems are, in truth, someone else's dreams. Mother Teresa realised this in a true epiphany. Perhaps we should too.