STORY : Criticizing The Lord from Reader's Digest

Story title: Criticizing The Lord
from Reader's Digest


Mother Teresa of India often gives people unexpected advice. When a group of American teachers visited her in Calcutta, they asked her for some practical points to take home to their families.
   "Smile at your wives,"she told them. "Smile at your husband."
    Thinking perhaps that the advice was a bit too simplistic, coming from an unmarried person, one of them asked, " Are you married?"
"Yes,"she replied, to their surprise, "and I find it hard sometimes to smile at Jesus. He can be very demanding."
    Shades of the mystic St. Teresa of Avila who complained to Jesus about all the suffering she had to bear. He answered her with, " That's the way I treat my friends."
    To which she replied, "No wonder you have so few."