Quote of the Day (Mother Teresa, on Faithfulness)

“God doesn’t call me to be successful. God calls me to be faithful.”—Mother Teresa, when questioned at the end of her life if she felt discouraged that, despite her efforts, poverty remained in Calcutta

(We are living in the age of back to basics, folks, when verities as old as the Scriptures are being relearned through hard and bitter circumstance. I thought we might be seeing some of that after 9/11, when the vogue for businessmen-heroes like Jack Welch turned, for ever so short a time, to selfless people like firefighters. Now, with the economy in the midst of what promises to be a long downturn, people might question again the relative value of success vs. living for others, as Mother Teresa—and maybe at least one or two people in your life, if you’re lucky—did.)