On living what we say ...

Ponder on these words of the Blessed Mother Teresa, "Be holy because the God who created you is holy and He loves you."

True to her words, she believes in what she says and lives on what she believes. She shuns the cloak that people of holy stature wear, so to speak, and wear daily the habit of love.

I am appalled to witness people who tell us to follow what they say because of the nature of their position, but don't do what they preach. But Mother Teresa is a unique mold, a one of a kind. She was offered a nice vehicle; she refused to take it. When asked why she lives on the place where the poor, the beggars, the sickly, the refuse of society stay, she replied, " because in them I see God."

I was fascinated when I read about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk.