Star Walker of the Month
January, 2007
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Mother Teresa

August 27, 1910 -  September 5, 1997

by – G. K. Holland

“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.” – Mother Teresa

She Walked in Places Forgotten by Feet

  The Star Walker of the Month  for January 2007 is an incredible woman whose work continues to reach out beyond any borders or limitations of kindness and compassion. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia. She answered an uncommon calling and in her own way changed the world. The elite warriors of good in Star Walker are called the Ken Ju Kai, they have a saying which goes: ‘The Ken Ju Kai walk in places forgotten by feet’.  In Star Walker the term ‘places forgotten by feet’ refers to places and/or events which demands acts of valor, virtue, nobility, exercising spiritual fortitude or acts of courage in the midst of challenging events not engaged in and forgotten by others. Mother Teresa did just that. She walked in places where the poor were forgotten, in forgotten places of the dying and the sick. She walked with a poise and grace that continues to extend to places she never even visited. Mother Teresa was and remains  a blessing sent to earth with a pre-ordained and divinely fashioned purpose. She was the epitome of a purpose driven life.

“Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.” Mother Teresa

In our current times a number of individuals within the media have come to believe that there is, or worse, should be some kind of limit on human compassion. Mother Teresa found strength and an inexhaustible resource of compassion by her acts of kindness and caring for the sick and the poor. The words compassion fatigue would never have come up in her mind, and she certainly never would have spoken them.

In recent times the words compassion fatigue has been coined by a number of people who would have you believe that there is some kind of limit to what you can feel compassionate about, and for how long. They would have you believe that there should be some limit of human compassion for others, as it pertains to any particular tragedy. This is a bit ridiculous because the moment we become ‘compassion fatigued’ is the moment compassion fails. Of course once people act with compassion they are compelled to find out ‘the why’ of it. Which is why many people began to ask why nothing had changed with the hardest hit areas of New Orleans after the Katrina storm when they had either gave of their personal resources or had watched millions given by others. And yet still they saw no reasonable or measurable results.

  Once questions for many of the atrocities around the world are addressed, those directly and indirectly responsible are eventually pressured to answer a number of charged questions. The answers to these questions are hoped to provide some kind of sense in explaining the plight of the poor, the uncared sick, and victims of natural disasters and so forth.  One recent example of this is the long negligent governmental assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina. It is these kind of ‘lack of compassion’ type issues that ultimately demand accountability. One way to subjugate this is by perhaps trying to influence the people asking questions that they should only care to a certain degree, again hence the attempt to program people with terms like compassion fatigue. It introduces a flawed logic that says: “See, we’re tired too. We can only do so much. We too, are suffering from compassion fatigue.” This mind you, while those spinning this kind of flawed logic usually have done next to nothing, or not nearly as much as the power to do more lays dormant in their hands! It would seem that in troubled times like these Mother Teresa’s example rises above all the lies, all the deception, all the greed, all the lack of accountability, and all the self serving agenda that many throughout the USA and the world apparently subscribe to.

The fact is the more compassion we extend to others, the more we are strengthened from within, and the more we can encourage others to do the same.  When we look back at the work of Mother Teresa and all those she touched with her genuine love and divine mission on earth to care for the sick and poor, if we truly look inside the essence of her calling, it can lead us to know the great power of hope! Her great example of humanity inspires us, even serves us in a deep way and shows us how God works through those like Mother Teresa in all His glorious mystery.

Mother Teresa – The Handwriting on the Wall?

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin." – Mother Teresa

In an article published in Time Magazine, Mother Teresa described herself as being a pencil in God’s hand. She was in many ways the writing on the wall for our modern times. This description she gave of herself reminded me of a story from the Old Testament.
 

In the book of Daniel King Belshazzar son of King Nebuchadnezzar received a message from God (the handwriting on the wall as described in Daniel 5:25) that Daniel interpreted for him. Belshazzar was found “weighed in the balances and found wanting”. His lack of compassion for others and his pride led him to so-called ‘compassion fatigue’ if you will, and therefore he was judged by God. He lost his life and his entire kingdom fell. The point is, Mother Teresa was/is a sign post, an example, a reminder of how we can never put a limit on how much we care for others because history as far back as Biblical times, shows us how such a lacking is eventually dealt with. This example may seem somewhat extreme? Perhaps not, because the fact is if we were all doing our part in helping the poor and the sick of the world, we would all feel less overwhelmed when we see starving children in Africa, or the tragedy taking place in Dufar, the victims of Katrina and so forth. The moment the citizens of a society begin to think they only have so much compassion to give is when they begin to lose God’s favor.

Mother Teresa An Unlikely Soldier
in the War of Principalities

Star Walker is an action adventure story with sci-fi, archeological, technological, biblical, historical and dramatic human elements woven throughout its multi-layered narrative. In addition, many of its stories are rooted in ‘real world’ issues and human history. The basic theme of Star Walker is about the very real ongoing war of principalities. In other words, the war between good and evil. Since the beginning of time compassion has always been one of the greatest weapons against evil. It is obvious that Mother Teresa was well aware of this because her compassion allowed her to be in a place of total humbleness, and this made her great in God’s sight.  She was one of the most humble people you would ever meet. She always gave credit to God and not herself for all of the great work she was doing. She always said that her work was to show the love of Jesus.

She was the most unexpected and unlikely soldier of our time because she pushed passed seemingly impossible obstacles, whether it was political or religious in nature. And of course she did that without firing one shot. Who knows what conflicts she may have spared the world due to the incomparable depth of her humanitarian work?

I have a strong feeling that if we could step into the corridors of the space time continuum itself, on the walls would be written many ‘bad things meant to be’, but which were delayed or aborted, and Mother Teresa would be listed as the cause. To highlight the immensity of her work and its timelessness, all we need to look at is the ongoing ministry she left behind. On a good day I believe if anyone had looked hard enough, and deep enough into Mother Teresa’s eyes, they would have surely seen the very light of Jesus firmly embracing her spirit.

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