Mother Thereza - a dedicated life to the poors

Dear Sir,
             I am writing in response to your article about the lack of role models today. I really feel that it was most unfair and that there are many admirable role models to inspire us today. I have always felt that people who attempt to push back the frontiers of knowledge or who put their lives in danger for others should be admired. I would like to describe someone who has inspired me personally and who in my opinion has fulfilled these criteria – Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Throughout her life Mother Teresa constantly kept to the way of the strongest faith to serve poorest people from poor people. She carried on working and believing in her mission while things happened in her life by leaps and bounds. She proved his courage when she went on a mission and started her beautiful mission in the world named Missionaries of Charity. Sometimes she felt stranded with troubles and challenges because some people started criticizing her. She didn’t see her sister and mother for her whole life after she became a nun. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion in the world. In spite of suffering a heart attack when she went to Rome to see Pope Jhon Paul II, she didn’t give up doing good things to homelless people, however in her second heart attack in 1989, she offered to give up her work and to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity, but the nuns of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to keep up her work as head of the order. She was a well-respected leadership and she made an important contribution to poor people and she was recognized as an important person in several countries.  She is a role model because her example to everybody is so important. For instance one day she convinced a person who wanted to kill her to give up his purpose in killing her and this story is so famous that serves as an example to people, a love’s example to people who only think in anger and revenge because such things can’t belong to our hearts.
Even then Mother Teresa didn’t rest on her laurels. Instead, after reaching the top and being in the top of the world, she decided to carry on serving poor people and she made effort to win the poverty and homellessness. In her old age, she would have had a sit and relaxed but in her last days she had kept herself fit throughout her amazing career and was therefore ready to undertake her final challenge that was to carry on serving poor people and building up hospitals, schools and shelters in 120 countries. As a result nowadays Missionaries of Charity has 4.000 nuns serving and helping people around the world and giving a good example to governments, nations and institutions. In spite of being a Roman Catholic, she took on great importance to believers from another religions once she was sympathetic to everybody. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa of Calcutta died on 5 September 1997 giving an amazing example of life to us.
Overall, I think I most admire her spirit, optimism and her mercy on people. Neither cynical nor money-grabbing, she took great personal risks to build up a space where people could be helped in their problems.. She achieved more in her lifetime than most people ever dream of, and was truly inspirational to others, not only of her own generation but also of mine. Who could ask for a better role model for our time?
 Yours faithfully,  

Cristaino Lima

Teacher/Translator