http://punctum-saliens.org/2007/05/20/they-are-not-the-enemy-my-friends/ Leaping Point: Take a flying leap and see where you land Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://punctum-saliens.org/2007/05/20/they-are-not-the-enemy-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1042 Valerie Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:11:21 +0000 http://ifyouregonnadothatyougotta.org/2007/05/20/they-are-not-the-enemy-my-friends/#comment-1042 It is so admirable to hear of someone who lives their faith, whatever it is. Mother Theresa was not an evangelist, but she said her life was based on Jesus' words, "Whatever you do for the least of these, my brethren, you do for me." Three of us met with her for about an hour (she came to set up a convent in NY and we collected money for her to assist with the victims in Bangladesh), and I said to her, "What we call poverty in this country must seem silly to you, who works with the really poor." She said, "No, on the contrary. In India people are materially poor, but they are very rich in loving families and relationships. In this country, people here are spiritually poor, lonely, despairing...which is much worse." She was such an example of giving with no judgments. It is so admirable to hear of someone who lives their faith, whatever it is. Mother Theresa was not an evangelist, but she said her life was based on Jesus’ words, “Whatever you do for the least of these, my brethren, you do for me.” Three of us met with her for about an hour (she came to set up a convent in NY and we collected money for her to assist with the victims in Bangladesh), and I said to her, “What we call poverty in this country must seem silly to you, who works with the really poor.” She said, “No, on the contrary. In India people are materially poor, but they are very rich in loving families and relationships. In this country, people here are spiritually poor, lonely, despairing…which is much worse.”
She was such an example of giving with no judgments.

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