Small Things

Carla Cleaning!

Sarah, Chris, and Kelsey eating by the fire.

The Chapel in fall before it snowed!!

  So the title of my blog is do small things with great love.  That is one of my favorite quotes from mother teresa.  It seems like such an easy statement, but not so much.  We, as missionaries, have been studying Story of a Soul by St. Therese and her spirituality.  I started reading the book, and she just irked me.  I had to ask myself why...she is holy...the church recognizes that, right.  I realized that she is just so holy and I am so NOT!! So really I am more irked at myself then St. Therese.  God has really been working in my heart, and He has been revealing that I am not holy in the small things.  St. Therese was pursuing God's heart, She was pursuing love.  She loved people in their weaknesses and not in spite of them.  Once again, something that I really struggle with.  So God has been calling me out into deeper holiness.  St. Therese says that when you have been loved abundantly, you must give love for love.  I have been asking God to teach me to listen and to love better.  That is at the heart of vocation...to love.  So why does it scare me?  I know God will fulfill me, yet I still hesitate.  Yet scripture says "Perfect Love casts out all Fear."  Anyway, I want holiness, I want God and I want to love better, I dont' want to be afraid.  St. Therese teach me!

Love, 

Carla