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If you want to change the world, go home and love your family
Mother Teresa

I like this quote not only for the truth in it but also for the irony. It has me thinking of someone to come all the way to witness the work and service of Mother Teresa. And she would tell them to step out of the way "go home and love your family."
I don't know, whether this is something Jesus would have said. I believe there is a lot more to serving our God than loving my family. Especially when I listen to Jesus' words.
I got this quote attributed to mother Teresa from the movie Unsung Hero. And for me it is an important lesson I hear repeated throughout the last two (or three) years of being a father (and a husband), when loving my family has become more about serving and giving and less (not at all little though) about thankfully receiving (as a son and brother).
A family is not a happy end, just as much as movie happy ends are only just the beginning of the adventure in almost all cases. A family is a fellowship on an adventure that can be more or less adventurous as much as it can be more or less close, rich, poor, tense, chill ...
I long to write more about it. But I believe the saying of Mother Teresa also holds the following truth (for me): There is no end to writing books – you can miss life for any activity, if you can get busy enough. Writing this costs me.
And reading it costs you.
Is there a point in writing this or reading, if none of it applies to you let alone transforms your everyday life?

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