A Lesson From Mother Teresa on Agape Love.

Mother Theresa and Queen Elizabeth II in 1985.

“It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbor. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so this is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him. And to make sure we remember his great love he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love.

I had the most extraordinary experience with a Hindu family who had eight children. A gentleman came to our house and said: Mother Teresa, there is a family with eight children—they had not eaten for so long—do something. So I took some rice and I went there immediately. And I saw the children, their eyes shining with hunger. I don’t know if you have ever seen hunger. But I have seen it very often. And [the mother] took the rice, she divided the rice, and she went out. When she came back I asked her—where did you go, what did you do? And she gave me a very simple answer: They are hungry also. What struck me most was that she knew—and who are they? A Muslim family—and she knew. I didn’t bring more rice that evening because I wanted them to enjoy the joy of sharing. But there were those children, radiating joy, sharing the joy with their mother because she had the love to give. And you see this is where love begins, at home.”

What’s the Matter with the World?

What’s the matter with the world,

has the world gone mad?

(But) nothing’s wrong with the world.

It’s the people that are in it.

You can depend

on the sun (because) it rises every day.

But you can’t rely on the things people say.

Rain falls from the sky

to give water so life won’t die

except you and me.   

The Irony of Liberty.

Sometimes, one wonders what would have happened if the American Congress had passed a bill say, about 30 or 40 years ago, ordering every citizen to wear a radio transponder around their neck on 24-7 basis? Trust my American folks. This would have been met with an uproar and outrage that would put a nuclear bomb explosion into shame.

But what do we see today? The citizens themselves are voluntarily giving up their individual liberty. Security agencies, all over the world, can keep tabs and track their citizens' daily activities and movements through the cell phones on their persons. In the United States, for instance, the latest the brands of the phones (with all those “cute” gadgets) the easier the monitoring and eavesdropping jobs of the FBI, CIA and NSA.