From the words of Mother Teresa to today's world

I am in this book discussion at Geneva. It's on the Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne... While reading this book (which I recommend reading) I ran across a quote that convicted me. Shane had been talking about his trip to Calcutta (where Mother Teresa lived) and visited The Home for the Destitute and dying. In this section of this book, he used some really great quotes. (Both of these are by Mother Teresa) First... "We are called not to be successful, but to be faithful." How many of us are constantly striving towards success and forgetting what God really wants us to do? I think that we can be successful and be faithful, but we really need to be faithful before the other. The other one really spoke to my heart... " We can do no great things, just small things with great love. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing them." I love this! I really think that, even me, tries to change the world, or make this big mark on the world. Not that I am saying not to strive to do great things... but do we all need to be doing these huge things? It made me think of the one night I went to sit with one of my residents... to me it was no big deal. I just went down and did my job. It was something little that showed that I cared for them and I was here if they needed me. To this resident, it meant the world. I dont know if that is going something little or not, but it is still doing something. I did it with love. Christianity is about loving one another. Jesus did not flaunt himself around healing people, he knew that they would die eventually, but he did it to show love. Jesus touched the ones with leprosy. He touched them. Do we reach out and touch others? Who really knows that when we were out and about we smile at someone or touch them in some way.... What if that is Jesus???? I guess what I am trying to say is go out and smile at someone... "Just [do] small things with great love"