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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Hmm and Wow. One of the comments on Vanness Wu's latest blog entry. In 2007, Time Magazine had an article titled Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith. It talks about letters between Mother Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years. It reveals that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever. She bemoaned the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she was undergoing. She said that her smile was like a mask. She had the same question like everyone, "Does God exist" and "where is God"... However, she never abandon her faith nor works. She has shown such great faith~ It's probably also because she had great confessors and superiors. In March 1953, she wrote Périer, "Please pray specially for me that I may not spoil His work and that Our Lord may show Himself — for there is such terrible darkness within me, as if everything was dead. It has been like this more or less from the time I started 'the work.'" Here is Périer 's reply. "God guides you, dear Mother," he answered avuncularly. "You are not so much in the dark as you think ... You have exterior facts enough to see that God blesses your work ... Feelings are not required and often may be misleading." When our feeling fail, which I believe most of Christians will experience at least once in their life time, we have all the exterior facts that tell us there is God and He loves us. May God strengthen our faith. I also love the author's comments at the end, "The particularly holy are no less prone than the rest of us to misjudge the workings of history — or, if you will, of God's providence. Teresa considered the perceived absence of God in her life as her most shameful secret but eventually learned that it could be seen as a gift abetting her calling. If her worries about publicizing it also turn out to be misplaced — if a book of hasty, troubled notes turns out to ease the spiritual road of thousands of fellow believers, there would be no shame in having been wrong — but happily, even wonderfully wrong — twice." Labels: contemplative 3:34 PM
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