"If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because we are not generous enough."

Mother Teresa said "If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because we are not generous enough."

Imagine this situation:
After dinner, we may have excess food and we may throw it in the garbage because:
1) We do not know that there may be a hungry person in our neighborhood.
2) We do not know or we may have forgotten that there is a person that we know who is lonely (lives alone, or family is out of town) and that lonely person can consume some excess food.
3) In fact we may be busy looking forward to our favorite TV show whereby the  thought of giving away the excess food does not cross our mind. 

Mother Teresa's BBC interview

In 1968, Mother Teresa visited England and the BBC requested a TV interview of Mother Teresa.

The interviewer was Malcom Mudderidge, of BBC TV

During the interview, Mother Teresa was very nervous in front of the cameras and somewhat faulty in speech. The Interview was a disaster and the producers doubted for a while if it was worth showing except for late at night.

Finally it was shown on Sunday evening. The interview had an extraordinary effect on the viewers.  Something about the woman whose answers to a highly professional interviewer were so perfectly simple and perfectly truthful that the interviewer felt uneasy and had difficulty continuing the interview for the allocated half hour seemed to have touched the nation.

Malcolm himself had been profoundly impressed by Mother Teresa, he said "It was for me one of those special occasions when a face given to unknown seems to stand out from all other faces as uniquely separate and uniquely significant".

 

In fact the response to the interview proved to be greater than any other comparable program.

Contributions and letters poured in from rich, poor, educated, uneducated, young and old.

One woman wrote "this woman spoke to me as no one ever has and I feel I must help her".

Another man wrote "The words of Mother Teresa touch my heart like an arrow".

By public demand they had to air the interview several times.

Travel tip: Forgot your charger

Travel tip: Forgot your charger
If you forget your USB wall plug, some TV sets have a USB that you can use to charge your devices.
Forget your charger completely? Always check with the hotel front desk—some previous guests accidentally leave their chargers and the front desk usually has a box full of them.