My Love Affair with Saint Therese
But gradually, as more and more of my friends sang the praises of Christ working through Therese in their life, I realized that I needed to give her another chance - or rather, stop shutting off my heart to what Christ was trying to tell me through her.
I was looking at things with a very broad scope vantage point lens. Let me take on the world. My campus. My career field. But Therese was sitting beside me, nudging my finger on the zoom button of that camera, constantly pulling my vision closer and closer to the individuals who were closets to me. My best friends, family, classmates, professors. She kept saying that they were my mission - my mission in my backyard...and I didn't want to have a thing to do with that.
She kept proving me wrong - if only proven by her patronage. Saint Therese the Little Flower, who went into a cloistered convent is the patron saint of missionaries.
What? But it was true - this little saint who pushed herself along her little way was rippling out and effecting many more than just those in her four convent walls. And I was being challenged to do the same.