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puzzle 1 -- A Thing

any guesses?

A "thing" mentioned
in a quote from Mother Theresa

puzzle 2:

Today's daily red
John 15:17

Russell shares inspiring words of wisdom
from Mother Theresa

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, (now, that is a great name for a word puzzle!) was born in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, which at the time was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

In September 1946, while riding in a train from Calcutta to Darjeeling to engage in 8 days of spiritual exercises, she received a divine calling from God "to serve Him amongst the poorest of the poor".

She served as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, and was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. That same year she became an Indian citizen.

Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. She and her fellow nuns took in dying Indians off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to care for them during the days before they died, so that they might be able to die in peace and with dignity.

On September 5, 1997, at the age of 87, the best loved woman of the century passed away. Her funeral service was on September 13, 1997, the 51st anniversary of her receiving her divine mission from God.

Not long before she died, Mother Teresa spoke to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. She was introduced to that gathering as "the greatest woman in the world." She dismissed that introduction by saying that if she were the greatest woman in the world, you would think that God would have made her tall enough to see over the podium behind which she was standing. But she went on to say,

I am nothing close to being the greatest woman in the world, but I will tell you the greatest thing about my life.
I've been able to be a tiny pencil in the hand of God,
someone through whom God writes love letters to the world.
I am nothing.
He is all.
I do nothing of my own.
He does it.
I am God's pencil.
A tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes.
God writes through us,
and however imperfect instruments we may be,
He writes beautifully.