Urban Dictionary: GOAT – Greatest Of All Time
I was recently visiting a shrine off the interstate in Nebraska and there was snow falling and Christmas music playing and I was with some pretty awesome people and it was a cool moment. As I was walking around this beautiful place and reading all about the history of how this was built I started reading a passage from Mother Theresa and tears started flowing down my face. It was the most powerful thing I had ever read:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- -Mother Theresa
If reading that doesn’t give you some type of felling, man I don’t know. The most powerful words I have ever read.
In today’s world we are all about receiving, we are all about getting credit for what we do/give to people. We never just do things because we want to anymore or for the good of others, we do things for the good of ourselves and to make sure we can sleep at night with a good conscious.
But please, everyone, listen to the GOAT.
Mother Theresa is telling us to do ANYWAY. No matter if we feel like what we are going to do, what we are living for, what we are striving for every day, no matter if NONE of that matters, DO IT ANYWAY.
If you do not get recognized for that extra money you gave to the church, do it anyway. If you do not get noticed for paying for someone’s groceries, do it anyway. If someone is jealous of the love and blessings you have in your life, pray for them and be happy anyway.
The only person we all need to worry about pleasing is the Big Man himself. SO go do things, be things, do not worry about receiving credit, God sees it all and on your last day when you meet with him face to face you KNOW that he saw all the good you have done, even if no one else has.
So, forgive, be kind, succeed, be honest, create, be happy, do good, give the world your best, and be like the Greatest Of All Time, you won’t regret it in the END.
