Today is Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006; Karen's Korner #902

This is something a friend ripped out a devotional booklet and made sure that Jim and I read. It was dated last Tuesday, September 26 and came from a publication titled "The Beatitudes For Today":
 
"He said to them in reply, 'My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it."
        -- Luke 8:21
 
 
Saints who teach us abuot the holiness of the Beatitudes are not once-upon-a-time characters captured only in stained glass and fresco. We have photographs and film on some modern saints. At first we may think of Mother Teresa, who with a holy meekness and a pure heart, was the very embodiment of mercy, and marshalled a Nobel Peace prize.
 
Yet when we think of Motor Teresa, we often make........mental errors. We many say, "Oh, she must be a saint," as if she had some special holiness gene, some superendowment of saintly ability. This attitude distances us from her and gives us wiggle room not to go and do likewise. But what Mother Teresa did, any one of us could do. She was neither athletically agile nor an intellectual giant. What she did---picking up a sick child, spooning porridge to a hungry man, smiling, asking others to embrace someone with nothing---I am perfectly capable of doing.
 
If she is a saint, I could be one too.
 
    ~~ By James C. Howell

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