It's Mother Teresa's 102nd birthday celebration in heaven. Everything is planned in the Book of Life and Death and there are no coincidences. While living on earth she was a gift from God that keeps on giving to humanity - the sick, the poor, the abandoned, the unloved, the refugees and the dying. She was a walking angel on the streets of loneliness and destitution. The very personification of love.
Her spirit lives on with the "Running Sisters" of her pontifical congregation all over the suffering world - the Missionaries of Charity. The vocation is not for everyone - a life of chastity, poverty, obedience and wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor. Who would have such a vocation in this day and age?
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa never judged anyone. Her "friends" that I've read about had an abortion, an agnostic and an anarchist. Since she did not beg for donations and did not receive government grants, she solely depended on Divine Providence. Yes, she accepted gifts from anyone who would give - Baby Doc of Haiti, Charles Keating among many others. She once said, good or bad, we were all made by the hand of God. Do not judge.
She spoke of the "Fear of the child." In some places (all?) of the world, if you have an abortion, you don't have to pay. But if you give birth, you have to pay. Very ironic.
I'm so happy Mother Teresa got born and lived.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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