When handling my diaries, I found a lot of inspirational stuff collected earlier but not visited recently. Here, I copy a peom written by Mother Teresa.
Life
Life is challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is costly, care for it.
Life is wealty, keep it.
Life is mystery, know it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is a promise, fulfil it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, overcome it.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa was a great person. She showed to the world how a humble individual works incredible miracle. But Mother Teresa had her own problems. She loved life and served it well. But she was believed to be troubled spiritually.
Where is my faith? Even deep down … there is nothing but emptiness and darkness … If there be God—please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul … How painful is this unknown pain—I have no Faith. Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal, … What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true. (Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light)
Her lack of faith in God only attests to her faith in life itself. "Life is life, fight for it." Faith in God, according to those religious, has tremendous supportive power but the world is too real for one to rely on the ultimate surreal.
There was a parable saying that when one was was almost drowned in the flood he prayed and asked God to save him. A log floated by. He didn't grasped it. A boat floated by and people on it asked him to climb into it. He didn't comply. And when he finally drowned and stood before God, he accused that God hadn't come to save him. God smiled and said, "I sent a log and a boat to save you. But you didn't use them." This story is created by God's lamb not God himself/herself, I believe. The lecture delived here, possibly, is "God help those who help themselves." Really smart. But I see that the one in the flood tried to save himself by praying. He thought, innocently or stupidly, that God would personally come to save him and the critical situation was a perfect chance to test his belief in God. He was betrayed.
My point here is: "Life is life, fight for it." If you rely on others including God completely, you are dupe. When it comes death or life, it's up to you to choose. Never give up, because you are your own God. Mother Teresa didn't rely God to help the poverty-stricken. She relied on herself. She understood that only her own actions count.
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