mother teresa...

letters of mother teresa indicate the last half of her life she did not feel the prescence of g*d

somehow, this makes me admire her even more. for her to keep going and not slip into the despair of inaction is truly awesome - shows her humanity and her gift... personally, i think people want to view "saints" as being different than us as a way to get us off the hook... if i see mother teresa as a saint, i can excuse myself for not trying to emulate her cause after all, she's a saint and i'm a mere human. if, on the other hand, we see her as an ordinary person that did extraordinary things, it is a call to us ordinary humans to also do extraordinary things - and we can't use the excuse that she's a saint and we are not...