Have you ever stopped being busy for a moment, and found things not as you left them? I sometimes realise how lonely and insecure I am, and how much my priorities have changed.
I suddenly realise how much my friends mean to me, and how careless I've been with our relationships. Then I realise what a great honour it is to have the friends that I have, and how grateful I am for their wisdom, humour and grace.
"When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger." Mother Teresa
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