That quote is from Mother Teresa. I was so excited when I found this tonight because it goes along with the thought I wrote about in my first post and one I’ve had for quite a while–changing A world. There are so many quotes from her that follow this same idea.
Here’s another one: “Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.” Again, it’s to keep reminding us that it’s about an individual–not an overwhelming, almost unachievable task. All the statistics on AIDS and poverty tend to push us away from doing anything because we feel like making a real difference is an unattainable goal.
I can be so driven by people talking about “changing the world.” I love that idea. But when it gets down to it, how does that happen?
I’m an “all or nothing” person. If I can’t do it all and do it now, then I don’t want to do it at all. So this is something that is huge for me to remind myself of continually.
Yeah, of course, it would be great if we could wipe out AIDS and poverty and everybody could live happily ever after. But God didn’t promise that for now–He promised it for eternity. So our real goal is to introduce people to Christ so that their “happily ever after” can come true.
Everywhere you look, there are opportunities to show the love of Christ to the people around you. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”–Mother Teresa
One last quote to wrap it up: “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Hopefully, we don’t get overwhelmed by the mass needs of a world that is hurting and become missing drops, but we’ll add our single drops to the ocean for the cause of Christ and see multitudes of people in Heaven.
Vicki Ohlerking 