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the following is taken directly from the book, Mother Teresa: A Simple Path, compiled by Lucinda Vardey.
(Mother Teresa is my role model)
"We are all capable of good and evil. We are not born bad: everybody has something good inside. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there. God created us to love and to be loved, so it is our test from God to choose on path or the other. Any negligence in loving can lead to someone to say Yes to evil, and when that happens we have no idea how far it can spread. That's the sad part. If someone chooses evil, then an obstacle is set up between that person and God, and the burdened person cannot see God clearly at all. That's why we have to avoid any kind of temptation that will destroy us. We gain the strength to overcome this from prayer, because if we are close to God we spread joy and love to everybody around us.
If evil takes possession of someone, that person, in turn, may spread evil to everybody around him. If we are in contact with such people we must try and help them and show them that God cares for them. Pray hard to help bring prayer back to them so that they may once more see God in themselves and them see Him in others. It is this which will help the person who is bad because everybody-it doesn't matter who-has been created by the same loving hand. Christ's love is always stronger than the evil in the world, so we need to love and to be loved: it's as simple as that. This shouldn't be a struggle to achieve."
At DTS we are told to see Jesus Christ in everyone. That in everyone there is the face of God. I have been having so much trouble with this lately.. i tend to be slightly (cough) pessimistic, and, when i know that someone is doing wrong, especially if they had done wrong to me, than all i see is the bad. i know that there is good in there some where, but when the bad dominates, i can help but blame them for it. but in reality, its the blame of not only them, but of people like me who have neglected to show them the love they've been lacking in their lives. people like me who have failed to love them regardless of their faults.. right now i am finding it absolutely impossible to forgive certain people who have hurt me recently, and it sucks. because all i see is those mistakes they made when i look at them in the face. even right now, those mistakes are all that i can think of. i've made mistakes, plenty of them, but i don't want to be judged by them. and i continue to judge people for the mistakes they've made against me...
tonight is DTS. we're watching the first half of the Passion, and the second half next week- in honor of the Lenton Season among us and all. marissa is coming. i'm excited. maybe the movie and being with everyone will "open the eyes of my heart." who knows..
on a lighter note... joseph and i were chosen as 'cutest couple' for senior superlatives... that means that the year is almost over. ack. actually, i got another eye-opener about hs being over soon- i got my housing questionaire in the mail today for Cabrini. yikes.
next week is St. Paddys day. i'm going to the parade with the Breslins and folk. i'm excited- i've never been to the parade before!
i know that this was a massively long entry, and kudos to anyone who actually read it in its entirity.
maybe tomorrow i will be able to forgive, and see the good in them again?
*i love you, joseph--thank you for always being wonderful.
(Mother Teresa is my role model)
"We are all capable of good and evil. We are not born bad: everybody has something good inside. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there. God created us to love and to be loved, so it is our test from God to choose on path or the other. Any negligence in loving can lead to someone to say Yes to evil, and when that happens we have no idea how far it can spread. That's the sad part. If someone chooses evil, then an obstacle is set up between that person and God, and the burdened person cannot see God clearly at all. That's why we have to avoid any kind of temptation that will destroy us. We gain the strength to overcome this from prayer, because if we are close to God we spread joy and love to everybody around us.
If evil takes possession of someone, that person, in turn, may spread evil to everybody around him. If we are in contact with such people we must try and help them and show them that God cares for them. Pray hard to help bring prayer back to them so that they may once more see God in themselves and them see Him in others. It is this which will help the person who is bad because everybody-it doesn't matter who-has been created by the same loving hand. Christ's love is always stronger than the evil in the world, so we need to love and to be loved: it's as simple as that. This shouldn't be a struggle to achieve."
At DTS we are told to see Jesus Christ in everyone. That in everyone there is the face of God. I have been having so much trouble with this lately.. i tend to be slightly (cough) pessimistic, and, when i know that someone is doing wrong, especially if they had done wrong to me, than all i see is the bad. i know that there is good in there some where, but when the bad dominates, i can help but blame them for it. but in reality, its the blame of not only them, but of people like me who have neglected to show them the love they've been lacking in their lives. people like me who have failed to love them regardless of their faults.. right now i am finding it absolutely impossible to forgive certain people who have hurt me recently, and it sucks. because all i see is those mistakes they made when i look at them in the face. even right now, those mistakes are all that i can think of. i've made mistakes, plenty of them, but i don't want to be judged by them. and i continue to judge people for the mistakes they've made against me...
tonight is DTS. we're watching the first half of the Passion, and the second half next week- in honor of the Lenton Season among us and all. marissa is coming. i'm excited. maybe the movie and being with everyone will "open the eyes of my heart." who knows..
on a lighter note... joseph and i were chosen as 'cutest couple' for senior superlatives... that means that the year is almost over. ack. actually, i got another eye-opener about hs being over soon- i got my housing questionaire in the mail today for Cabrini. yikes.
next week is St. Paddys day. i'm going to the parade with the Breslins and folk. i'm excited- i've never been to the parade before!
i know that this was a massively long entry, and kudos to anyone who actually read it in its entirity.
maybe tomorrow i will be able to forgive, and see the good in them again?
*i love you, joseph--thank you for always being wonderful.