Tuesday, September 11, 2018

2018-37 - Love in Action…

One night a man came to our house and told me, "There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days." I took some food and I went.

When I finally came to the family, I saw the faces of those little children disfigured by hunger. There was no sorrow or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger. I gave the rice to the mother.

She divided it in two, and went out, carrying half the rice with her. When she came back, I asked her, "Where did you go?" She gave me this simple answer, "To my neighbours - they are hungry also."

I was not surprised that she gave – because poor people are generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we are suffering, we are so focused on ourselves we have no time for others.

~ Mother Teresa



Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

~ Shannon L Alder

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