Inspiration

I stumbled upon this little gem while reading an article on the CBC about a group called the Madonna House. The foundress, Catherine Doherty was someone obviously spoiled for normal.

"Catherine Doherty was not a person one could casually meet and then forget. She was a Russian who, in her own words, liked to “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Complacency, mediocrity, tepidity — these were associated with those she sometimes referred to as “the walking dead,” people not really alive, although they might be living ‘normal’ lives.

Catherine's love for any given person might take the form of obvious compassion, through humble service, attentive listening and meeting their evident needs. Or her love might take the form of trying, by her words, to ‘shake’ a person from their self-satisfied approach to Christian life. It would still be compassionate love, if less obviously so."

http://www.madonnahouse.org/mandate/introduction.html