INTERFAITH WISDOM

A good website for devotional prayer stemming from many Christian sources is Crosswalk.com.
Here is a beautiful prayer attributed to Mother Teresa and recounted on that site.  It affords us insight into her motivation in dedicating her life to the poorest of the poor.

Dear Jesus,
help me to spread your fragrance wherever I go.
Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly,
that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me, and be so in me
that every soul I come in contact with
may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see, no longer me, but only Jesus!
Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine,
so to shine as to be a light to others.
The light, Oh Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine.
It will be You, shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best,
by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching, not by words but by my example,
by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do,
the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
Amen.
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