Poem found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
Oh God, often it is hard to love our neighbor, and more often it is difficult to love ourselves. Help us to do both...anyway. Amen.
2 comments:
A very nice reminder for what is going on for me right now.
On re-reading I can see Mother Theresa has found somewhere, or discovered herself (most likely) a credo that tells us HOW to live the 'Godly life'(in some if not all ways) that Jesus wants us to live.
As an older person I feel that if we 'mature' people have learned these lessons we are/ or can live a much happier life in our 'golden ??' years.
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