A 10yo & Mother Teresa Teach Me what to DO for Poor Kids & My Family!
MOTHER TERESA INSPIRES:
I found a shocking quote from Mother Teresa in a book I was reading: 
"Compelled by Love: How to change the world through the simple power of love in action" by Heidi Baker.
HEIDI BAKER IS MY HERO:
HeidiBaker is my hero because she and those working with her have laid down her lives for Jesus and reaching the poor, especially children...in the 2nd poorest country in the entire world, Mozambique..... I wonder if Mother Teresa is Heidi's hero...
The most profound quote of hers in the book hit me like a ton of bricks ....so I read it to my kids to see their response:
"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
We have refused to be instruments of love in the hands of God to give the poor a piece of bread, to offer them a dress with which to ward off the cold.
It has happened because we did not recognize Christ when, once more, he appeared under the guise of pain, identified with a man numb from the cold, dying of hunger, when he came in a lonely human being, in a lost child in search of a home."
Well the conversation that followed was IMPACTFUL AS MY 10yo TAUGHT ME some things....she said with great boldness and assurance in spite of her elder siblings comments that WE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH TO HELP THOSE CHILDREN....it was true. Her siblings tried to convince her We try to do things she said but it is not enough because we should help more of them not suffer....its NOT FAIR that they live like that....WE HAVE TO DO MORE AND TELL ALL OUR FRIENDS AND SCHOOL FRIENDS AND CHURCH FRIENDS AND FACEBOOK AND TWITTER AND.....
....my 10yo then formed a list a page long of all the places we need to help and ways to do fundraisers to help children who are poor around the world. I learned alot from her.....God inspired her I am sure....we NEED to do more to help the 75% of the people in the world, especially the children... as much as we can. We need to make a PLAN TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THINGS IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN....big or small. We already knew even 35 cents feeds a kid a meal in Nicaragua. So now we will pray about and begin to DO like Jesus said...."whatever you have done for the least of these...you have done unto ME"
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I was curious about Mother Teresa at this point....I looked online and I found a goldmine of quotes that were well organized on this site below...I posted some of the family ones that read like a parenting book. Mother Teresa was SOOOO wise!
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http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/wis.html
Family
"The woman is the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason of our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world."
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"The most natural thing is the family life. What keeps the family together, what nourishes the life of the family together, is that surrender to each other; is that obedience; is that accepting of each other"
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"We should teach our children to love one another at home. They can learn this only from their father and mother, when they see the parents' love for each other."
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"To parents: It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another--not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy."
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"Today we see more and more that all the suffering in the world has started from the home. Today we have no time even to look at each other, to talk to each other, to enjoy each other, and still less to be what our children expect from us, what the husband expects from the wife, what the wife expects from the husband. And so more and more we are out of our homes and less and less in touch with each other."
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"Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried. Are we there? Let us know the poor in our own families first. We have old people: they are put in institutions and they are never visited; with less and less time even to smile at each other, with less and less time to be together. Love begins at home, if we can only make our own homes temples of love."
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"I think of you and your families and pray for each one of you: 'Lord, keep them faithful to each other in Your love. Let nothing, nobody separate them from Your love and love for each other. Let the child, the gift of Yourself to every family, be the bond of love, unity, joy, and peace. Amen"
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Categories: prayer, recommendations, Parenting, family devotions, books, parenting twins
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