Today is Mother Teresa’s beautification. This means she’s on the way to being canonized a saint. I didn’t realize that this was happening today, which is sucks because I could’ve been happier today if I knew. It’s ironic, really, because I’ve been listening to an audio book about her for four days now.

Mother Teresa is so simple. I am so complicated. She balances me out and makes my aspirations more whole. She always said that it doesn’t matter what good things you do, because if you do it without love, you’ve done nothing. Her simplicity is intoxicating.

Fr. Dale was blessed to call Mother Teresa a friend, and he told us tonight at Mass that she had really ugly feet. They were flat and broad, calloused, dirty, and twisted. How beautiful the feet and hands of a servant.

Tonight on my walk back to my house, I had such a beautiful simplicity about me. I didn’t care about anything but just the joy of walking through a cool fall evening.

Thursday was Pope John Paul II’s 25th anniversary as the pope, and I didn’t realize it till the evening. I felt like I had forgotten a whole day to have sparkles inside of me. Although I didn’t find out that today was Mother Teresa’s day until the sun was setting, I was doing stuff today, and doing it with love. I am working on a couple new websites that I hopefully give women more dignity. Mother Teresa would be proud of me.