Serving Others Gets Noticed

When Christians live as Jesus told us to do, loving God and serving others, folks notice. Even the New York Times!

A recent headline in the New York Times was guaranteed to get readers’ attention. It said “Finding America’s Mother Theresa.”

Talk about pressure! Whoever the article described had some huge shoes to fill: Mother Theresa was a beloved humanitarian who was both a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Catholic saint.

While Annette Dove of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, probably won’t win a Nobel Prize, and as a non-Catholic, won’t be canonized, there’s plenty here to admire and emulate.

Dove’s story, as told by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, is a remarkable one. At age 16, Dove dropped out of high school and married a man not only incapable of loving her but who also physically and mentally abused her.

The end of that marriage left her as a single mom and taught her an important lesson: the importance of being “equally-yoked” with a person who shares your morals and values.

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