Momma T- shifting the paradigm

Well last night Mother Teresa told me something interesting.
I thought I'd pass it along because it might be changing my life.

It was written in a newly released book: Come Be My Light- a collection of private letters that Teresa wrote throughout her life to her confessors. These epistles piece together the story of her decades long struggle with feeling the absence of the presence of God in her life- and the eventual realization that this was a gift from God to invite her into His suffering. The things this lady can teach about what Joy really is are transforming the way I see this life.
Mother T would write to her confessors to ask them to pray that she would be able to refuse Jesus nothing.

She writes

"Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, should we answer with just a fraction of ourselves?...."

and then, two pages later, the line that kicked my heart across the room.

"'When I see someone sad.... I always think,

she is refusing something to Jesus.'"