Disciple

When I was 15 years old, I participate in a beauty contest from my hometown. I really didn’t care too much about it, but my mom like the idea, and since I was kind of “tomboy” in my early teens, I think that’s why I was there. By my surprise, I was elected as one of the five finalist (I know what are you thinking, there were only 5! NO! There were 25 girls), and as every beauty contest they ask me the “must do” question: If I have the opportunity to meet anybody famous, which I would like to meet? My answer was pretty fast, “Madre Teresa de Calcutta” why? “Because she is an example of the kind of love Gods want us to share with each other.” That was kind of my answer to why.

Yesterday, I was the custodian of Mother Theresa relic at church after mass. At the beginning I really didn’t think about it until I see her (hair) was so tinny but with so much power! At age 15 I never thought that I could be that close to her. It was very emotive see all the people coming around to touch her, and pray with her. I don’t know why is taking so long to proclaim her a saint.

A lot of people, and I include myself, believe that the bible was written 1000 years ago, how we can said that Jesus, His disciples truly do all the things that the bible said they do? How we can compare those times with today’s time?  As in Mark 1:16-18 where Jesus call the disciple to leave everything and follow Him, Jesus was there in the flesh! Mother Theresa didn’t have that, but still, she hears Jesus and her mother to follow them, and be a fisherman. She is a today’s example of what the disciples do when Jesus was here on earth. She abandon everything including her family and herself to serve God, to teach us what God wants from us, to demonstrate that is possible be God’s disciple and leave with joy.

It’s time to start reflecting on what we are fishing? Do we are following Jesus in the way He wants us to follow Him? What things are keeping me from follow Him? Doubts, arrogance, money, selfishness, laziness, what is it?

Mark 1:16-18

 ¹⁶ As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. ¹⁷ “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” ¹⁸ At once they left their nets and followed him.

Big Hug,

MRM