Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa laid her life down for love, making a dent in the society around her by serving the poorest of the poor, leaving a mark in history for her radical abandonment, and raising the standard to all beleivers by challenging the church to a higher calling of loving “Jesus in disguise. “Malcom Muggeridge attempts to capture her life and ministry in his book “Something Beautiful for God.” However, her ministry cannot be described merely through logistics or numbers, because it had greater purpose than to serve. Mother Teresa and her fellow nuns loved God and loved others. Through Mother Teresa is much wisdom to learn, she was a leader whether she intended to be or not, and through her life God was glorified and His love was made known.

“Something Beautiful for God,” was written by the British author and Christian apologist, Malcolm Muggeridge. Muggeridge was saved as an adult, which greatly altered the direction of his writings, and probably inspired him to write this autobiography of Mother Theresa. However, Mother Theresa made it clear she had no desire for a biography to be written about her. She explained that Christ did the greatest work on earth, yet while He was alive no record of his life written, and she didn’t want more recognition than Christ. Muggeridge respects this wish by taking a different sort of an approach, and writes a very untraditional biography. He begins telling of conversations, and encounters he had with mother Theresa. He describes her life through the lense of a non-believer, shifting the reader’s perspective. I believe he wrote with a greater intention than informing the reader, but rather to inspire and move people, and expand Mother Theresa’s ministry beyond her life on earth. The book also i...

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... laid down her life for love. She died to her flesh so there was room for Jesus to take his place in her and fill her with his love, and that was what she gave others. However, the legacy she leaves us with isn’t to drop everything and serve the “poorest of the poor.” That was her assignment. Her calling, along with every believer’s calling, is to lay their life down for love, and to love God whole-heartedly, and to love “Jesus in disguise.”

Mother Teresa treated every heart with the delicacy Christ would, she expanded his kingdom on earth, and first and foremost was a heart sold out and set a apart for the love of God! Her life inspires radical abandonment, she left us with wisdom, and an example of a crucified to self vessel of love and carrier of light. Mother Teresa glorifed God with her whole self, and leads us to the cross by her radical expression of love.