--To My Neighbor--

-By: Mother Teresa
-From: "No Greater Love"~

One night a man came to our house and told me, "There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days." I took some food with me and went.

When I finally came to that family, I saw the faces of those little children disfigured by hunger. There was no sorrow or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger.

I gave the rice to the mother. She divided the rice in two, and went out, carrying half the rice. When she came back, I asked her, "Where did you go?" She gave me this simple answer, "To my neighbors--they are hungry also!"

...I was not surprised that she gave, because poor people are really very generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were. As a rule, when we are suffering, we are so focused on ourselves we have no time for others.~~