As a tribute to Valentine’s Day, I would like to nominate Mother Teresa for doing beautiful things for God. She did small things with great love, that in turn, became great sources of joy for everyone she encountered. She found God in the silence of nature, and in so doing, she was able to touch the souls of a darkened world.
She understood that peace and war begin at home. To find peace for ourselves, we need to love one another in our families. If we want our world to be filled with joy, we need to make sure every family has joy. We need to fight for purposes in our lives so that we can fulfill God’s goals for us. Opportunities, beauties, dreams, challenges, duties, games, promises, sorrows, songs, struggles, tragedies, adventures, and luck…all of these are what we must fight for. In the final analysis, life is too precious to simply let it have no purpose.
Love begins at home; how much love we put into action is what really matters, not how much we do. I am but a little part of God’s written journal for the world. He is using me to send a love letter to everyone. If we want world peace, we need to start loving our families. Every time we meet someone, friend or stranger, we should smile for it is in the smiling that we begin to love them. The amount of actions we do is not what matters; what matters is the amount of love we put into our words, actions, and deeds. At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the great things we have done, by our education, or by the money we have amassed. We will be judged by the people we have fed, the people we have clothed, and the people we have sheltered.
Love is the greatest truth in our lives. The most beautiful gift we can give to God is loving one another and finding peace in the silence of walking hand in hand with Him. As Mother Teresa believed and demonstrated, when we become “Christ with flesh on,” we are doing something beautiful for our Eternal Father. May your love today be driven by your love of all that is God and His beloved Son.
Anna Hartt
