Find Your Own Calcutta
Mother Teresa worked tirelessly year after year with the poorest of the poor of Calcutta. When reading about her, I was intrigued by her response to people who begged to join her mission or asked how to imitate her life. Her response was, “Find Your Own Calcutta.”
In other words, find your own cause. Don’t settle for what God has called someone else to do. Seek Him for what He has called YOU to do with your life. I’m only guessing here, but I imagine it is different than what God called Mother Teresa to do with her life. What is the way God has called you to serve others?
What cause moves you to useful action? What ministry area grips your heart? What do you think about when the movement of the day slows down? What areas of need do you “notice?”
Research shows that people who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. That in itself, it a reason to be otherly. (Is it possibly to be selfless for selfish reasons?)
Anyway, the bottom line is…”Have you discovered your own Calcutta?” For me, it is ministry in the church and giving my life to ministry through VCNP in various forms and it has been for the last 26 years.
Food for thought.
Blessings,
Thora
I, too, have found my Calcutta through the ministry of VCNP. I love being part of this team!!!!