Our work is constant, our homes are full. The problems of the poor continue, so our work continues. Yet everyone, not just the Missionaries of Charity, can do something beautiful for God by reaching out to the poor people in their own countries. I see no lack of hesitation in helping others. I see only people filled with God’s love, wanting to do works of love.
This is the future – this is God’s wish for us – to serve through love in action, and to be inspired by the Holy Spirit to act when called.
So we must understand that God does not “love” us without liking us – through gritted teeth – as “Christian” love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it.
The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.
This is an excerpt from a book A Simple Path by Mother Teresa. If you would like to buy this book please click here.