In life, Mother Teresa was an icon
for believers of God's work on Earth. Her ministry to the poor of
Calcutta was a world-renowned symbol of religious compassion. She was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It has emerged that Mother Teresa was so
doubtful of her own faith that she feared being considered a hypocrite. In letters
she wrote to friends, superiors and confessors, her doubts are obvious.
Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit left Mother
Teresa. "Where is my faith?" she wrote. "Even deep
down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness... If there be God please forgive me." Eight years later, she was still looking to
reclaim her lost faith. "Such deep longing for God… Repulsed,
empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said. As her fame
increased, her faith refused to return. Her smile, she said, was a mask.
"What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there
be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You
also are not true." "These are letters that were kept in the
archbishop's house," the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk. The letters were
gathered by Rev. Kolodiejchuk, the priest who's making the case to the
Vatican for Mother Teresa's proposed sainthood. He said her obvious
spiritual torment actually helps her case. "Now we have this new
understanding, this new window into her interior life, and for me this
seems to be the most heroic," said Rev. Kolodiejchuk. According to
her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped
praying, she once said. The church decided to keep her letters, even
though one of her dying wishes was that they be destroyed. Perhaps now
we know why.
Its
difficult to follow true beliefs when people are trying to program us.
So
many people in this world fall into evil or have evil cast upon them
simply because they are honest and admit they don't believe in a god. All
each of us have in this world is our hard earned virtues and nobody has
a right to challenge them simply because we believe in a different form
of energy. At the same time nobody has a right to force evil on us by
classifying all non believers as evil or satanists. First off for a
person not to believe in god would mean they don't believe in satan eather.
Second each of us have to answer to newtons third law if we channel
negative energy.
Mother Teresa left us with some very strong words of
guidance for channelers of positive energy.
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Do
It Anyway - Original written by Mother Teresa
People
are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
its about personal growth, understanding and mental development;
It was never between you and them anyway.
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