I'm reading from Mother Teresa's bio/memoirs, and OH, how I am amazed and inspired by her.
And in reference to my previous post on Jesus's love and longing for orphans- for the least of these- for you and me, I wanted to post some quotes from her that are so very applicable and so very true....
"Jesus wants me to tell you again... how much is the love He has for each one of you- beyond all what you can imagine... Not only He loves you, even more- He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He love you always, even when you don't feel worthy...."
She described her mission and the call God put on her life in this way:
"It was on this day in 1946 in the train to Darjeeling that God gave me the "call within a call" to satiate the thirst of Jesus by serving Him in the poorest of the poor."
She talks over and over about the THIRST of Jesus. How He thirsts for us. He doesn't only love for us. It is so much more. His love is so inexpressible and so unfathomable that it could more easily be described as a *thirst* for us than what we would associate with our limited view of love. Oh, how he longs for us... How he thirsts for us... How he loves us.
She states:
"'I thirst' is something much deeper than just Jesus saying "I love you." Until you know deep inside that Jesus thirsts for you- you can't begin to know who He wants to be for you. Or who He wants you to be for Him."
She stated that her mission began "in the depths of God's infinite longing to love and to be loved."
The depths of his infinite longing to love. He LONGS to love you and me. He LONGS to love the least of these. And He longs to use you and me to SHOW His longing and His love to the least of these.
As my hearts longs for this precious little one, Alhamisi, to know how much he is loved.... How my heart is PAINED and grieves to see the gradual effects that life in an orphanage has had on him over the past year that I have known him (from cheerful and innocent when I first met him- when he was very young and new to the orphanage- to saddened and clingy whenever I spend time with him there now).... Oh how my heart yearns, how it thirsts, how it longs for him to KNOW- in the depths of who he is- that he is LOVED. Because I know that he doesn't. I cannot begin to fathom how much more God's heart hurts and grieves and longs for this little one....
Alhamisi
One of Jesus's final statements on the cross was "I thirst."
May we know more fully His THIRST. And may it change us.
