Small things with great love

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love" - Mother Teresa

I set myself a goal this year to read one book a month, for personal and spiritual development. Sound easy? Well, consider the last book I read was The DaVinci Code 2 years ago. Then consider that book took 14 months for me to complete! And I only really came up with that goal last week, leaving around 12 days to complete my first book for the year. Now I'm really up against it, because on a friend's recommendation I chose "The Irresistable Revolution" by Shane Claiborne. Weighing in at a mere 358 pages, and with 6 days left in the month, I still need to read about 40 pages a day to meet my self imposed deadline.

It's going well though. It's challenging my world view and messing around with my thinking. I'm left wondering why I don't really meet and care for poor people on a daily basis. I'm feeling more compelled to get by with less stuff. And I'm seeing Jesus in a new light as well. All this after only finishing 4 chapters!

The third chapter was to do with Mother Teresa's work with the destitute and dying people of Calcutta. What an incredible example of a follower of Jesus! The quote above about doing small things with great love resounds within me (Read more Mother T quotes here). We touched on similar themes at a Salvo camp last week, and I'm pretty sure I remember it emblazoned on the walls of my cousin's mission house in Doveton. You know God is speaking to you when he tells you the same thing three times. If only the ears of my heart were receptive to the significance of these things the first time! Makes me wonder what other whispers of God I am missing with all the noise and junk in my life.

If I had to pick a verse for the day, I guess it would be:

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ.^[a] It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20 (New Living Translation)

Cheers - Nath