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Broken and Blessed
What the Bible and Mother Teresa Teaches Us about Poverty
It’s often the most broken of humanity, that is least blind to their blessings, the most impoverished of society who are most willing to share what they have, and are most thankful for what they get.
People who the world sees as the most broken, are often in fact the farthest from it. But there are definitely struggles and they are both near and far, poverty can certainly have a way of breaking ones spirit, poverty can be hard for sure and yet the most poor are often the strongest.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu) was born of Albanian parents in Skopje in 1910. Journeying as a missionary to India, she labored many years as a teacher before hearing the “call within the call,” “to give up all and follow Him into the slums — to serve Him in the poorest of the poor,” and so satiate the thirst of Jesus for love and the salvation of souls by founding the Missionaries of Charity. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, and was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.
