Tuesday - June 12, 2007
Mom was in Japan
19:17:42 :: 
Mom left Dad and I for some reason. We didn’t know where she was and found it out from her sisters. She was preparing herself in a hotel and was going to Japan for few years to work there. I was so sad. I called her on her cellphone but she pretended that she couldn’t hear me and gave the phone to my aunt. My heart was so broken…
That’s why I cried and screamed in my sleep today. I suddenly remembered that Mom once took a picture in kimono before she got married.
I watched “Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux” with Dad today. It’s okay, not as good as I expected. I admired her love for God, though, but I disagree with her love interpretation. Yes, she dedicated her youth and life all for God, but how to love and serve other people (other than those nuns in the same monastery they stayed)? Doesn’t God want His people to extend His love to all of human beings and not just to our “friends”? Leaving the real world to a monastery to me is just like escaping from reality…
Anyway, who am I so I can say this? 
I believe that God loved Thérèse de Lisieux very much because she loved Him more than other people did, and I could never love God as much as she did… The movie wasn’t too detailed and I got better understanding after reading her Wiki bio.
Have a good Tuesday.
Dear Gabrielle,
Thank you for your post about St. Therese. You are exactly right that God wants us to love all people, and I believe it was to do that that Therese entered the monastery. If you would like to find out more about her, please see my Therese Web site, http://thereseoflisieux.org, which tells about some books and about a documentary made inside the monastery that will help you find out more about her. I hope that you will not go on thinking that you cannot love God as much as Therese did, for why could God not do in you what God did in her? with all good wishes, Maureen
Comment by Maureen O'Riordan — Wednesday - June 13, 2007 @ 05:52:52
That was sweet reading her bio! “of little ways”
Comment by Heather — Wednesday - June 13, 2007 @ 09:14:20