The first building that Mother...
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The first building that Mother Teresa began to operate out of in India was formerly a kind of hotel that people used when they went to visit the temple of Kali, who is the Hindu goddess of death. Mother Teresa converted the building that had once been used by people who worshiped death. She transformed it into a symbol of the life-giving love that God has for all people. Into that building Mother Teresa and her helpers began to gather the sick and the dying people of Calcutta who had been left on the sidewalks and in the gutters. One day some neighbors complained to the local authorities about what Mother Teresa was doing, and they wanted her evicted. But when the police commissioner came and saw how Mother Teresa was spending her life working amid such stench and misery, he said that the only way he would kick her out was if someone else took over in her place. No one volunteered. As John declares: "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it."
-- Bowen
-- Bowen
