Female Anna’s Hummingbird on nest, Olympia, Washington USA
It is said that when Mother Teresa talked to a person no one else in the world existed to Mother Teresa except the person that Mother Teresa was talking to at that moment. Mother Teresa was a master at living in the moment, making the moment, in all its small, beautiful nuances, count. If you look at her great accomplishment of establishing missions throughout the world to take care of the most vulnerable, most of what she accomplished was done by doing small things with great love.
The foundation of Mother Teresa’s capability of doing small things with great love came from prayer and her love of Jesus. Each morning following mass, Mother Teresa would spend an hour in quiet prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
Mother understood that a life filled with small acts of charity was what Jesus expected of the Christian. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.” (Matthew 25: 35-36)
Mother Teresa took Jesus’s words to heart for in each person she met she saw Jesus. “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him.”
Let us live the simple life. Let us do small things with great love. Let us see Jesus in each person we meet.