How I Named This Blog

One of the people I have always admired most is Mother Teresa. There is a wonderful children's book compiled by Edward Le Joly, Jaya Chaliha and illustrated by Allan Drummond called Stories Told by Mother Teresa.

One of the stories is called The Courage to Give. This is an excerpt from it:

She told this extraordinary story about a very poor family who showed love to their neighbors...

"A man came to our house and said, 'Mother Teresa there is a family with eight children who have not eaten for some time. Please do something for them.' So I took some rice and went there immediately. And I saw the children, their eyes shining with hunger. Their mother took the rice from me, divided it into two and then started to walk out of the house with the other half. 'Where are you going?' I cried. 'They are hungry also,' was all she said and then she left. When she came back she explained that her neighbors were hungry too. She had given half of the rice to them.

Now what really surprised me was not that she gave, but that she knew her next door neighbors were hungry, for usually when we are suffering or in trouble we have no time for others. But this mother had the courage of her love to give."

No matter how little we have we have to do our best to share with others. As Mother Teresa once said, “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” This giving of ourselves, our time, our money, our love, etc. can take courage. We have to trust in God while doing His work.