From the book ‘A Simple Faith’ by Mother Teresa, Brother Geoff explained:
“If we aim to help a sick person physically, and all our care is devoted to him, is properly motivated by our efforts to love him, then it has a spiritual effect as well. With physical healing one sees the disease and determines how much medicine is needed. These are logical and rational steps. On the spiritual side, as there is no judgment, you let happen whatever is going to happen spiritually, and the more loving you are towards that person the more something will happen spiritually to them and to you. It is always better to expect nothing. Let God work in His own way and then things do happen. Certainly I have seen people expressing this change, showing that in some way they are more aware of God’s love for them. It mightn’t be in words but is evident in their behavior: a peace descends upon them. For instance many handicapped people are quite self-destructive—beating their heads against the wall and tearing their clothes and mattresses—but when they are given a little more attention or treated more gently, then a notable change occurs. We never really know what is going on inside them but we are aware that some healing is taking place deep within them.” ~from A Simple Faith (New York, New York: Ballantine Books a division of Random House, Inc., 1995) 172-73
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