Mother Teresa's Crisis of Belief...

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Belief...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta's spiritual drought extended for decades and led her to doubt the existence of heaven and God for the last 50 years of her life.

This story in Time magazine should provide a boost to the faith of every person that feels their lack of belief might limit their ability to have a robust faith in Jesus (by faith, I mean agreement with and allegiance to his message). It proves that ontological beliefs are not a requirement for a faithful life. I wonder if her doubts about God's intervention had something to do with actually taking matters into her own hands.

Maybe Mother Teresa was "Emergent" way before it was ever cool and trendy!

1 comments:

reverendrockstar said...

One of my favorite sayings is attributed to Mother Teresa:

"It's not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing."

Thanks for the link- very encouraging story.