Some Thoughts for the Weekend

Late Thursday night I saw the movie, "The Secret Life of Bees," with my sister's book club who had recently selected the book for their monthly discussion. Without giving away the plot or giving a recommendation, the film tells the story of a 14 year old girl, who grows up feeling that she is unloved, unwanted, and causes tragedy wherever she goes. I was thinking of how much the young girl's pain seemed to resonate with the audience, and I was reminded of a quote that I recently read.

"It is easy to think of the poverty far away and forget very quickly. Today a great disease is that feeling of terrible loneliness, the feeling of being unwanted, having forgotten what human joy is, what the human feeling is of being wanted or loved. I think this is found in very well-to-do families also.

We may not have people hungry for a plate of rice or for a piece of bread in New York City, but there is a tremendous hunger and a tremendous feeling of unwantedness everywhere. And that is really a very great poverty." --Mother Theresa
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