I have been reading a little about Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who is better known as Mother Teresa. She was an incredibly inspirational lady to so many people throughout her lifetime. There is a good page about her on Wikipedia; but here’s a potted version:
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa is Albanian by birth; her original name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. In 1948, she became a citizen of India. She received her spiritual training in Dublin, Ireland and Darjeeling, India and she became a nun in 1937.
On September 10, 1946, after teaching for twenty years at a high school in Calcutta, India, Mother Teresa received another call from God to serve the poorest of the poor who lived in the streets.
Archbishop of Calcutta Henry D’Souza knows that at times in her life, she felt abandoned by God.
He said that in one letter, she wrote that she had been walking the streets of Calcutta searching for a house where she could start her work. At the end of the day, she wrote in her diary, “I wandered the streets the whole day. My feet are aching, and I have not been able to find a home. And I also get the Tempter telling me, ‘Leave all this, go back to the convent from which you came.’”
She did find a home and the rest is history. The Missionaries of Charity feeds 500,000 families a year in Calcutta alone, treats 90,000 leprosy patients annually, and educates 20,000 children every year.
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Mother Teresa astounds me, especially after finding out that she felt abandoned by God.
She could have given up and gone back to her convent, but she didn’t. She lived with her doubts and kept on with her calling.
Some give up on God when He doesn’t show up in the way they expect Him to. I’ve done so many times. (Oh the yelling and blaming I’ve done!)
It’s taken years of going back and forth for me to not only find peace with this, but also to understand that it’s the way it has to be. Otherwise they wouldn’t call it faith.
Thanks Kay.
Mother Teresa must have had tremendous inner strength to keep going with her doubts as she did and not give up on God.
Like you, I’ve had times of doubt and given up on God. But am also at peace with things now. Despite my fears and doubts I know that God will never give up on me, however much I yell and blame. I don’t expect I’ll go through the rest of my life without more fears and doubts assailing me; but I hope and pray this thing called faith will continue to be the security blanket for me that it is today.
I pray that you, too, will continue to be at peace.