City of Joy

 

Finished reading this marvelous book ... a masterpiece. In one of the poorest and most crowded slums of Calcutta rise great saints like Mother Teresa and also unknown ones like Stephen Kovalski who lived in a shack without light or ventilation, infested with rats and cockroaches. He made his home there to care for the poorest of the poor. His neighbors were a community of eunuchs, a leper colony, the local mafia head …

A Thought: Patience & Persistence.

The people who succeed in life are the people who are willing to do what they don’t feel like doing. The are not mastered by their moods, they are mastered by the Master, and they establish their goals and plans according to God’s will.