Mother Teresa

I read an interesting article about Mother Teresa today. It seems she had many doubts about her faith. This came out around the time that she died. I dismissed it because I thought everyone has doubts at some points in their life, but I felt drawn to it for some reason today.

She calls it her "darkness" it was a huge burden for her because she wanted to feel Christ like she did when he originally called her to her ministry, but alas she was not satisfied. Eventually with the counsel of a priest friend she was able to live with the "darkness".

Now some would say why am I writing about this? Or if I am a true Catholic I would push this to the back and not talk about it. I believe this actually will HELP people with doubts. You see Mother Teresa although felt an absence of God STILL KEPT ON GOING WITH HER MISSION! That in itself is a testimony in faith. I believe a lot of people have doubts of the existence of God. I think it is a natural part of spiritual growth to doubt. But we must push forward. Never lose hope or faith in the journey to finding Truth.

I am finding now a days that you don't seek God in the sense of entering an address into a GPS and driving around until you reach your destination. No. You see God is love. Whenever we give love we are seeing God. When we are OPEN to him we see God. When we live in the moment and have gratitude for the small things we are experiencing God.

So ultimately Mother Teresa's doubts actually boosted my faith. If such a loyal servant of God had serious doubts, then there is hope for me/us yet!

Here the article if you are interested:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html