Quiet and genuine love changes the world

This is what I admire and find admirable, people who live out their faith in such a way that good is done but all you see is the good being done. It is never about them or their sacrifice. Never seeking to be in the limelight, never seeking to tell what part they played in the goodness, they just do what faith calls them to do, because actually they don't even see the goodness as any part of them. They act and in the wake of their actions is betterment and goodness that serves those in need and not themselves.

In recent days Sargent Robert Shriver passed away. I knew who he was, but I did not know who he was. I had no idea of his faith that drove him to put the driving power behind the Peace Corp making it the amazing serving giant it is today. I had no idea he was a man who went to mass everyday, and took his station in life as a serious responsibility to change the station of others. He knew that love was a tough word. Easy to say, tough to see it through. From an article I recently read His faith demanded action, from him, from all of us. For the Word to become flesh, we had to become the eyes, the ears, the hands of a just God. Injustice could, in the words of the old spiritual, “Be Overcome.” Robert Sargent sang, “Make me a channel of your peace,” and became the song. And he did it with quiet and deliberate movement.

Mother Teresa was a women who lived very much the same way, she gave her entire life to the poor and although she became "famous" it was not because what she did was about her or that she sought to be known. Her "stardom" was because light shown because of her action and she was caught in the glow. She simply "did" out of a heart for the poor who she saw as "Jesus in disguise."

I am really moved by the only thing that mattered to Mother T or Sargent Shiver, the only ONE they sought to please was the only ONE that matters. This is what Jesus taught and lived and called us to imitate. Jesus fought to remain anonymous, he knew the danger of pride of self absorption. He went head to head in the desert with satan and that battle was all about power and fame. This is a good indicator of what would put us in direct contrast of the Holy One.

Quiet and genuine love is what continues to change the world.