09/06/2026
BE INSPIRED | THE MAN NOBODY WANTED
One day, a sick and impoverished man lay helpless on the streets of Calcutta. His body was covered with wounds. People passed by, but no one wanted to stop. He was dirty, weak, and forgotten.
Then a small woman in a white sari with blue stripes stopped.
It was Mother Teresa.
She knelt beside him, touched him, lifted him, cleaned his wounds, and stayed with him.
Someone asked her, “Mother, how can you do this? He is filthy.”
Her answer revealed the secret of her life:
“I see Jesus in every human being.”
She did not see a dirty man. She saw Jesus.
She did not see someone society had rejected. She saw someone whom God had never rejected.
That was the heart of Mother Teresa’s holiness.
She cared for the dying, fed the hungry, welcomed abandoned children, and served those whom society had forgotten. But perhaps her greatest gift was much simpler:
She noticed people.
While others saw a problem, she saw a person.
While others walked past suffering, she stopped.
She understood that she could not solve every problem in the world—but she could love the person standing in front of her.
One person.
One act of kindness.
One life at a time.
Mother Teresa once said:
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
We often think, “I cannot change the world.”
Perhaps we cannot.
But we can change someone’s world.
We can listen to someone who is lonely. Forgive someone who hurt us. Visit someone who has been forgotten. Feed someone who is hungry. Sit beside someone who feels alone.
And Mother Teresa also reminds us that love is not always accompanied by beautiful feelings. Even during long periods of spiritual darkness and dryness, she continued to pray, serve, and love.
Her faith was not simply loving God when everything felt good.
It was saying:
“Lord, I may not understand. I may not feel Your presence. But I will still follow You.”
Perhaps holiness begins not with doing something spectacular, but with noticing.
Who is the person everyone ignores?
Who is lonely?
Who is hurting quietly?
Who is standing right in front of you—but nobody really sees?
The next time you encounter such a person, remember Mother Teresa.
Don’t just see the appearance. See the person.
And beyond the person, see Christ.
Because sometimes Jesus does not come to us looking like Jesus.
Sometimes He comes as the hungry, the sick, the lonely, the difficult, the forgotten, and the person the world has already given up on.
The question is not only, “Where is Jesus?”
The deeper question is:
“Will I recognize Him?”
St. Teresa of Calcutta did.
And she spent her life teaching the world a simple truth:
Love is not something we merely feel.
Love is something we do.
One person.
One moment.
One act of love.
One life at a time.
St. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us. 🙏
