“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.” (Mother Teresa)
I often think that I must squeeze each of these out of myself in order to be a “good girl”: prayer, faith, love, service, peace. According to Mother Teresa, it begins with silence and each flows from the other in sequence. Take time to read the sequence slowly, let each phrase echo in your mind. Can you see how this progression would work in your own heart?
It is also interesting that she speaks of the cost of sacrifice and then goes on to a list that ends in peace. She really did have a sense of the mystery and paradoxes of the faith. May this kind of faith increase inside you and inside me.
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