This “not-said-by-Mother-Teresa” quote has always resonated with me. I am one in need of the reminder that the people in front of me, the ones in my home, deserve my Christian love first and most for they will then go out into the world and create their own ripple effects based on how full that love has been. It is very easy for me to get so distracted and absorbed in the projects and people I serve outside of the home that I am left depleted, lacking then in that same Christian charity for my own. This non-quote has always helped me flip my posture and reorder my perspective, and, while Mother Teresa may not have said it explicitly, I do like to think she would approve.
Thank you for this perspective, Raine. I do think it's beautiful that her words in the Nobel speech held together home and world, urging us to start where we are, to tend to those we are give, and then always to move outward in love. Perhaps the movement of Christian charity is like a heartbeat, systolic & diastolic, returning and going out. We need both to live!
This “not-said-by-Mother-Teresa” quote has always resonated with me. I am one in need of the reminder that the people in front of me, the ones in my home, deserve my Christian love first and most for they will then go out into the world and create their own ripple effects based on how full that love has been. It is very easy for me to get so distracted and absorbed in the projects and people I serve outside of the home that I am left depleted, lacking then in that same Christian charity for my own. This non-quote has always helped me flip my posture and reorder my perspective, and, while Mother Teresa may not have said it explicitly, I do like to think she would approve.
Thank you for this perspective, Raine. I do think it's beautiful that her words in the Nobel speech held together home and world, urging us to start where we are, to tend to those we are give, and then always to move outward in love. Perhaps the movement of Christian charity is like a heartbeat, systolic & diastolic, returning and going out. We need both to live!
I took your image of the heartbeat into Adoration this afternoon, and it has become a powerful prayer for me. Much to meditate on. Thank you for that!