I am a fan of Mother Teresa, though I am not Catholic. I hope I can glean some wisdom from this one.

2-8-08 Well I finished this last night. It was ok. I have always had somewhat of an interest in catholicism. I always thought it would be nice to be able to absolve my sins through going to confession and saying certain prayers.

Having said that, I am still a fan of Mother Teresa and I can relate to her "dark night of the soul" since I have seemed to be experiencing something like that myself for quite some time. Someone in the Bible said, "Lord I believe, help my unbelief." Yes, I can relate. Like Mother Teresa, I love Jesus. My particular unbelief stems from my constant intellectualizing and the inability to correlate certain church dogma with the knowledge I have about the world. Instead of saying it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, Jesus should have said that, plus, --and an intellectual person to believe church dogma.

It cannot be argued that Mother Teresa was a positive influence in this world; when she died a light went out. I don't know if she is in heaven looking down but I would not mind having her help to guide me through life's difficulties.