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The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living (Compass)

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The provocative ideas and touching insights found in The Joy in Loving spring from incidents in Mother Teresa‘s own remarkable life. She speaks of women and men who have lived and died uncomplainingly, even in the course of great poverty and deprivation; of wealthy businessmen whose indifference has been transformed into compassion and charity, and of her encounters with people and governments around the world. Through all of this, Mother Teresa emphasizes the need for a disciplined, loving circle of relatives life, for “in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.” Drawing on more than seventy years of selfless service to the poorest of the poor, she discusses the importance of work and prayer, charity and service, the right to life and, above all, the wish to love–unconditionally and absolutely.
The authors, who worked closely with Mother Teresa all over her lifetime, have drawn together stories and prayers inspired by the missionary, who worked tirelessly on behalf of India’s poor with her sisters of charity. Every day of the year is assigned a brief story or blessing: A child goes without sugar so Mother Teresa may have it; a truckload of bread miraculously arrives for starving Indians when the rice has run out. Most of the passages are quotes from Mother Teresa herself, and all of them challenge the reader to live up to her saintly view of humanity and suffering. If the day-by-day approach doesn’t fit, there’s a very easy-to-browse index, organized by theme (“cheerfulness,” “humility,” “suffering”). Her standards are high, on the other hand, and normal sinners may find her words more challenging than uplifting.

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