Mother Teresa - Her Empty Heart

RUNNING ON EMPTY

MOTHER TERESA, THE STRONG, DEDICATED AND SHORT WOMAN HAD A BIG HEART.  So big it was always empty.

Critics and everyone, upon the release of a few letters by her Vatican postulator and author of "Come Be My Light', Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC,  in preparation for her path to sainthood were surprised and confused because of what she wrote about her "emptiness" and "darkness."

"Violence of the tongue is very real - sharper than a knife."

I think they are over-analyzing her.  Indeed, it is very hard to write about a phenomenon that is Mother Teresa.  How so?   Here goes again the ignorance about religious people - the way they think; the way they write; and the way they work.  Mother Teresa was one of those religious people.  She thought of herself transfigured as the body of Jesus Christ, the human being, full of sorrow and suffering on the cross.  As a young teen, Mother Teresa was a poet.  I've read one of her so-called agonizing letters and I've interpreted it differently.  Those who have read it probably have not been to a Catholic confession.  It could sometimes be...overly dramatic, the crying and may be even gnashing of teeth.  It was just her way of saying to her priest confessor mea culpa.
In a letter, Mother Teresa the little pencil of God, talked of being empty.  Her emptiness made it possible for her to be full of gladness and fulfill all her busy schedules and  hard work everyday.  A heart should always be empty so that it can be filled up again and again.  How can you go on if your heart is full?  Mother Teresa wrote further, "God cannot fill what is full - He can fill only emptiness - deep poverty - and your yes (to Jesus) is the beginning of being or becoming empty.  It is not how much we really have to give - but how empty we are - so that we can receive fully in our life and let Him live His life in us."  
Mother Teresa never said, "I feel your pain."  She said, "Suffering itself may be nothing but suffering shared with Christ's passion is a wonderful gift.  Our Lord must love you so much to give you so great a part of his suffering."  Again, in one of her letters to Reverend John Myers of Chicago, she wrote, "Pray much for me and for our people.  Who are "our people?"  Our People are the POOR.
Mother Teresa is one miracle away to canonization.  I think her number one critic Christopher Hitchens is dead.  (I have to verify when did he die).  I'll pray to Mother Teresa to raise him from the dead and tell her again and again she is just a "confused old lady."