Monday, December 23, 2019

"ANYWAY"

A MEDITATION BY SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA

What in the world does a piece written years ago by a Catholic nun in India have to do with my dental practice?
I can imagine you asking such a question. Just as your office is way more than a mill to churn out dental treatment, and your dental team is way more than a group of wage earners, Mother Teresa's words are way more than jargon from a religious woman.
ANYWAY

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
Worldwide, Mother Teresa is one of the most admired human beings in modern history. Born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Ottoman Empire, she left home in 1928 at age 18, moving to Ireland to study toward becoming a missionary. After completing her studies in 1929, she moved to India, her home for the remainder of her life.

On September 10, 1946, Sister Teresa experienced what she termed the call from God "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." She settled in Calcutta, India, living among the hungry, naked, orphaned, homeless, crippled, blind, and leprous to establish the Missionaries of Charity, an organization that has done untold good for untold thousands of human beings around the globe.

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