Note to God

We need to learn to guard our mind. Rubbish inputs, rubbish outputs. Be transformed in the renewal of your mind. So we need to input healthy thoughts and healthy inputs.  The monks: does this thought lead me to God or away from God?

To help you to want to do things, not just do things 

We need to cling onto Jesus, like a rodeo on the horse. No matter how the horse moves, just cling onto the horse

A boy fell into a bucket of grease along the streets. Mother was very worried. Recommendations from passersby on all kinds of detergent. A doctor passing by suggested to go to the dry cleaners.  Dry cleaners were shocked. But the 4yo boy remained calm. Why? Cause she trust in his mummy, she's knows the best for me

When John Kavanaugh, the noted and famous ethicist, went to Calcutta, he was seeking Mother Teresa … and more. He went for three months to work at “the house of the dying” to find out how best he could spend the rest of his life. When he met Mother Teresa, he asked her to pray for him. “What do you want me to pray for?” she replied. He then uttered the request he had carried thousands of miles: “ Clarity. Pray that I have clarity.” “No,” Mother Teresa answered, “I will not do that.” When he asked her why, she said, “Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.” When Kavanaugh said that she always seemed to have clarity, the very kind of clarity he was looking for, Mother Teresa laughed and said: “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”

Mother Teresa Please excuse this paper—as I have no other kind.—I am trying a little the Franciscan poverty. It is lovely to be poor and free from so many things.

When reading Gospel and learning about God, we need to open our heart. We need to see how God has effect on our lives and what he's telling us, and even a bit of a pinch. Read with humility and purity and be attentive to the details of the gospel

Church has a tremendous love for soul Cs Lewis- next to the bls sacrament is where we give our greatest reverence, the second is the souls of man. Cause it's what jesus died for. Not just love for souls, but really to want to save each one of these souls

To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small—that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us—to give us a chance to prove our love for Him. Because He makes them, they are very great. He cannot make anything small; they are infinite. Yes my dear children, be faithful in little practices of love, of little sacrifices—of the little interior mortification—of little fidelities to the assignments given, which will build in you the life of holiness—make you Christ-like

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice, continual union with God, fervor and generosity. A person who has this gift of cheerfulness very often reaches a great height of perfection. For God loves a cheerful giver.

**Vision**  Great leaders, like St. Josemaria, Mother Teresa, start with a simple vision they can evangelize internally and externally. Simplicity and strength of message are essential.   Mother Teresa had the vision of serving the poorest of the poor before she founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her personal vision became the vision for the organization. How do we get such strong convictions in our vision? Your vision comes from your lived experiences and beliefs.  No one else have the same lived experience as you that you can strongly advocate for.  Twenty years of exposure to poverty taught Mother Teresa the importance of serving the underserved in particular ways. Can you imagine the young Bill Gates setting up an organization like the one Mother Teresa did? It would have been terribly difficult because Bill Gates did not have her direct understanding of poverty.