Mary’s Minute
“Spread love wherever
you go. Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.”
~ Mother Teresa
The word love can be
used in many different ways. “I love
your new haircut” as a thoughtful compliment.
“I love you, man!” to an old friend, or the tender “I love you,” to a
significant other. Eskimos have many
words for snow because for of their need for precision in describing the white
matter. I wish we had more words for
love in order to better describe its intricacies. The Greeks had six different words for
love. My favorite is “agape” or love for
everyone. I believe that this is the
love that Mother Teresa spoke about. Love
for our families and significant others is a special kind of love that is certainly
connected to a love for all, but Mother Teresa’s brand of love is the kind we
want to model our lives sharing.
When my dad died I
remember as a family pouring over the intricacies of his monument. We wanted the phrase, “Love Never Ends”
etched in the granite as a reminder of the kind of love that Mother Teresa
describes. Not to take away from the
relationship of my mom and dad, but we didn’t want the phrase engraved near
their wedding date because we wanted the “love” that we were describing to
stand for more than romantic love.
Love – Perry Central
style – is what Mother Teresa describes.
That love is our goal.
With love,
Mary
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