Summer Theology
more to come as i think of it
Journal 1
"The ethicist John Kavanaugh traveled to Calcutta, India, to work for three months at Mother Theresa's house of the dying. Kavanaugh was seeking clarity about how to spend the rest of his life, reasoning that surely in the presence of a saint like Mother Teresa, direction would come. On his first morning there he met Mother Teresa, and she asked him simply, 'What can I do for you?' When Kavanaugh asked her to pray for him, she asked, 'And what do you want me to pray for?'

John Kavanaugh talked of his journey from a comfortable home here in the United States to the streets of Calcutta, where so much poverty and degradation exist. 'Pray that I may have clarity,' Kavanaugh requested.

'No, I will not do that,' Teresa responded firmly. When Kavanaugh asked why she replied, 'Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.' But surely she has the kind of clarity he yearns for, Kavanaugh objected. Mother Teresa laughed and said, 'I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.'"
source: The Southeastern Microscopy Society
Web Assignment 1
source: George and Elsie Wood Public Library
An Alternative Representation of the Human Condition... here
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