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Well, my application and everything else is off to NYC today. My mom saw it and although she said jokingly this time, “How are you going to get there?” she seemed calmer about it than when I first brought it up. She also asked about whether or not they pay for you to live there and stuff and I told her that they do pay you but that like any other job in the business, I would probably need to get another job on the side. To that she said, “Great, I hope they have a Dollar Store in New York!” lol, um, let’s hope not. It would be a sad day in my world if I were to get to NYC to do an Internship and still wound up at the Dollar Store. :) Maybe I’ll be waitress, hehe. Yeah me a waitress - I’m the girl who walks into walls. Could you see me being a waitress?
Anyway, I’m now looking at it like this - if this is what God wants me to do then I have nothing to worry about. Even though it may be what I want to do, I have to remember that, as the television show said…Father knows best. And if HE doesn’t want me to do it, then I shouldn’t even attempt to do it my way. There have been times in which I wanted something and asked for it, and regretted it later. I thought I knew what I wanted, I asked God to give me the desires of my heart and in then end, was totally miserable. That’s probably because I may have been asking for the desires of my heart, but I also wasn’t asking God what was best for me, and I wasn’t asking Him to line up the desires of my heart with His Will, and in a way I think he gave me what I wanted just to show me that while I may think I know what I want, He’s the one who really knows my heart and what I should be doing. I may know what I want based on what I see on the surface, but he knows all the ins and outs that I know nothing about, so I would rather go by what He says than by what I see based on outward appearances. So yeah, everything is in the mail and now it’s all in Gods Hands.
Although, I’m not that sure my “Statement of Purpose” is all that great. I totally BS’d because I wasn’t exactly sure what to say. But I figured that if I learned anything in the 3 years that I was an English major, it’s how to BS on a paper. :)
American Psycho was on TV this morning. I attempted to watch it, but I couldn’t get through the whole thing. My sister has the uncut version. Gee, I wonder how bad that is. Although I must admit, that um, watching Christian Bale murder someone while playing Hewy Lewis and the News, is pretty funny. Not sure if it’s meant to be, but it is.
And I’m not even going to get into the computer issues I’ve been having ever since I got home from school. My sister’s computer is still here so I’ve been forced to use that instead of my own because my computer doesn’t like to work apparently.
Now something to think about....
Do we know the lonely? Do we know the unwanted and the unloved? Do we know the hungry? Do we really know what hunger is?
I'll give you an example of what hunger is. A child got a piece of bread from a Sister. (He had not eaten for sometime. I saw that child eating the bread slowly, crumb by crumb. I said to him, "I know you are hungry. Why don't you eat the bread up?"
The little one answered, "I want it to last longer!"
He was afraid that when he finished the bread, his hunger would come back again. And so he ate it crumb by crumb!
The other child next to him, was not even eating. I thought that he had finished his bread. But the little one said, "My father is sick, I'm very hungry, but my father is sick, and I think he would love to have this bread."
That little child was willing to go without food to be able to give his father the joy of having a little piece of bread.
The poor are great people!...They aren't asking us to feel sorry for them...They deserve our love!
Not long ago, some Sisters and I went out and picked up four or five people off the streets. One of them was in terrible condition, so I told the Sisters, "I'll take care of her." And I tried to do all that I could for her, all that my love of Jesus could do.
When I put her in bed, she took hold of my hand. There was a beautiful smile on her face. She said only, "Thank you!" And then she died.
She had given me much more than I had given her. She gave me her GRATEFUL LOVE.
I couldn't help but examine myself. I said, "If I were she, what would I have done?" And my answer was very sincere, "I would have tried to draw some attention to myself by saying, 'I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm dying!"
But she had courage, and she had love to give to me, instead of keeping it for herself, of being focused on herself. These are very admirable things!
Why are the Sisters always smiling?...Because we are trying to be contemplatives in the heart of the world. We have chosen to be Missionaries of Charity, to be carriers of God's love.
We have no reason to be unhappy. How can that be? If the words of Jesus are true, "I was hungry, I was sick, I was naked, I was homeless, and you did it to me," (Mt. 25:40) then we are touching Him twenty-fours a day.
This call is basically the same for you too, you have chosen to be Christians. With Jesus and for Jesus, you will be able to live happily.
What we are doing, you cannot do.
And what you are doing we cannot do.
But together, we are doing something beautiful for God.
May our service to the poor further the salvation of mankind, of you and me, for we are touching Jesus.
By MOTHER TERESA
Founder Missionaries of Charity
And now something a little fun....
Your World (Part Three): How do you see your world [girls]
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Your World (Part Two): Your social world [girls]
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Your World (Part One): What is your world made of? [girls]
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Anyway, I’m now looking at it like this - if this is what God wants me to do then I have nothing to worry about. Even though it may be what I want to do, I have to remember that, as the television show said…Father knows best. And if HE doesn’t want me to do it, then I shouldn’t even attempt to do it my way. There have been times in which I wanted something and asked for it, and regretted it later. I thought I knew what I wanted, I asked God to give me the desires of my heart and in then end, was totally miserable. That’s probably because I may have been asking for the desires of my heart, but I also wasn’t asking God what was best for me, and I wasn’t asking Him to line up the desires of my heart with His Will, and in a way I think he gave me what I wanted just to show me that while I may think I know what I want, He’s the one who really knows my heart and what I should be doing. I may know what I want based on what I see on the surface, but he knows all the ins and outs that I know nothing about, so I would rather go by what He says than by what I see based on outward appearances. So yeah, everything is in the mail and now it’s all in Gods Hands.
Although, I’m not that sure my “Statement of Purpose” is all that great. I totally BS’d because I wasn’t exactly sure what to say. But I figured that if I learned anything in the 3 years that I was an English major, it’s how to BS on a paper. :)
American Psycho was on TV this morning. I attempted to watch it, but I couldn’t get through the whole thing. My sister has the uncut version. Gee, I wonder how bad that is. Although I must admit, that um, watching Christian Bale murder someone while playing Hewy Lewis and the News, is pretty funny. Not sure if it’s meant to be, but it is.
And I’m not even going to get into the computer issues I’ve been having ever since I got home from school. My sister’s computer is still here so I’ve been forced to use that instead of my own because my computer doesn’t like to work apparently.
Now something to think about....
Do we know the lonely? Do we know the unwanted and the unloved? Do we know the hungry? Do we really know what hunger is?
I'll give you an example of what hunger is. A child got a piece of bread from a Sister. (He had not eaten for sometime. I saw that child eating the bread slowly, crumb by crumb. I said to him, "I know you are hungry. Why don't you eat the bread up?"
The little one answered, "I want it to last longer!"
He was afraid that when he finished the bread, his hunger would come back again. And so he ate it crumb by crumb!
The other child next to him, was not even eating. I thought that he had finished his bread. But the little one said, "My father is sick, I'm very hungry, but my father is sick, and I think he would love to have this bread."
That little child was willing to go without food to be able to give his father the joy of having a little piece of bread.
The poor are great people!...They aren't asking us to feel sorry for them...They deserve our love!
Not long ago, some Sisters and I went out and picked up four or five people off the streets. One of them was in terrible condition, so I told the Sisters, "I'll take care of her." And I tried to do all that I could for her, all that my love of Jesus could do.
When I put her in bed, she took hold of my hand. There was a beautiful smile on her face. She said only, "Thank you!" And then she died.
She had given me much more than I had given her. She gave me her GRATEFUL LOVE.
I couldn't help but examine myself. I said, "If I were she, what would I have done?" And my answer was very sincere, "I would have tried to draw some attention to myself by saying, 'I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm dying!"
But she had courage, and she had love to give to me, instead of keeping it for herself, of being focused on herself. These are very admirable things!
Why are the Sisters always smiling?...Because we are trying to be contemplatives in the heart of the world. We have chosen to be Missionaries of Charity, to be carriers of God's love.
We have no reason to be unhappy. How can that be? If the words of Jesus are true, "I was hungry, I was sick, I was naked, I was homeless, and you did it to me," (Mt. 25:40) then we are touching Him twenty-fours a day.
This call is basically the same for you too, you have chosen to be Christians. With Jesus and for Jesus, you will be able to live happily.
What we are doing, you cannot do.
And what you are doing we cannot do.
But together, we are doing something beautiful for God.
May our service to the poor further the salvation of mankind, of you and me, for we are touching Jesus.
By MOTHER TERESA
Founder Missionaries of Charity
And now something a little fun....
Your World (Part Three): How do you see your world [girls]
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Your World (Part Two): Your social world [girls]
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Your World (Part One): What is your world made of? [girls]
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