Mother Teresa, "The Letters," Speaks to the Heart

Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu).
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Last night I watched The Letters about Mother Teresa and it was an amazing movie. I am glad to have learned so much more about her. What an incredible person and story. She won the Nobel Peace prize in 1979 and was canonized in 2003.

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The movie is based on a series of letters that she wrote to her spiritual director over six decades. It seemed to have mixed reviews online due mostly to the arrangement and narration but do not let those fool you, this is an excellent, moving and heartfelt movie that every single person should have to watch. In seeing not only so much that she endured but that of those for whom she cared, it is a strong reminder that most of us have little over which to complain. Many of us living in the comforts of Western society indeed forget (or even ignore) from day-to-day how truly we have been blessed and we will let even the tiniest inconvenience upset our day yet we do not know true hardship in most of our lives.

There were points in the movie where I felt I could barely breathe and the lump in my throat so large, it was difficult to swallow. One such moment was a at the point where she was so tired from walking back and forth to the slums, spending all day there and trying to help so many and she says, “Today, I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health.”  This touched me so as I sit complaining of my own tiny trials and obstacles, fully realizing that I, nor most in the western world, have anything to complain about. Appreciation, gratitude and thankfulness for the blessings I and so many have been given, poured forth in tears of painful self-reproach.

Regardless of religious or spiritual belief, Mother Teresa is probably one of the most influential persons of modern time, a role model worthy of at least our recognition but more certainly of our efforts to learn, to grow, to share the Spirit and to do all that we may in the help of others, unconditionally, through pure self-sacrificing love.

Follow the light of your heart!

Many blessings. 

Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250

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About Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, the angels’ author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality. For the past five years, she has been diligently working in publishing a series of angelic books as well as "The New Age of Christ." 

Bruedigam is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.

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