Bestselling Author Shares Lessons of Love and Inspiration During Exclusive Event for Monarch Landing’s Priority List
By Melissa Borgerding
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE
“Mother Theresa was the most beautiful and humble human being I ever met,” said bestselling author Susan Conroy, addressing Priority List members who packed Monarch Landing’s Welcome Center on Friday, April 7.
“She used to say ‘I’m just a pencil in the hand of God. If you like the handwriting, don’t thank the pencil.’”
Conroy, author of Mother Theresa’s Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity, traveled all the way to Monarch Landing from her home in Maine to talk about her work with Mother Theresa, and to share her personal memories of the woman she calls a “great light.”
Lessons of Love
As an idealistic young college student, Conroy journeyed to Calcutta, India to serve in one of Mother Theresa’s orphanages as well as her Home for the Dying.
Conroy admitted that nothing had prepared her for the extreme poverty she confronted there. Nor had Conroy anticipated that she would work so closely with Mother Theresa, who she described as very motherly and always smiling.
During her discussion, Conroy shared many of the lessons she had learned from her time working side by side with Mother Theresa.
“All you need to make a difference are hands to serve and a heart to love—and also a smile,” Conroy told her audience. “Mother Theresa used to say that we give most when we give with joy.”
One hundred percent of the author’s proceeds from Conroy’s bestselling book go
to charity.
Lessons of Inspiration
Conroy’s discussion struck a chord with Gene and Zeny N. of Romeoville.
“It was very inspirational,” said Zeny, who was excited to attend the exclusive event.
Zeny and Gene have been active in missionary work since 1980.