She Made Me Laugh. Stephanie Emmons
SHE MADE ME LAUGH
Mother Teresa and the Call to Holiness
SHE MADE ME LAUGH
Mother Teresa and the Call to Holiness
STEPHANIE EMMONS
2020 First Printing
She Made Me Laugh: Mother Teresa and the Call to Holiness
Copyright © 2020 by Stephanie Emmons
ISBN 978-1-64060-184-0
Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™
The writings of Mother Teresa of Calcutta © by the Mother Teresa Center, exclusive licensee throughout the world of the Missionaries of Charity for the works of Mother Teresa. Used with permission.
Excerpt(s) from MOTHER TERESA: COME BE MY LIGHT by Mother Teresa, edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., copyright © 2007 by The Mother Teresa Center. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Emmons, Stephanie, 1969- author.
Title: She made me laugh : Mother Teresa and the call to holiness / Stephanie Emmons.
Description: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, 2020. | Summary: “A memoir of direct experiences with Mother Teresa, when Emmons discovered her sense of humor first hand, and is also a reflection on the saint’s “dark night of the soul””-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020014722 | ISBN 9781640601840
Subjects: LCSH: Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997. | Emmons, Stephanie, 1969---Travel--India.
Classification: LCC BX4700.T397 E46 2020 | DDC 271/.97 [B]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020014722
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CONTENTS
3 MISERABLE IN THE CITY OF JOY
14 HAPPINESS IS A FRESH TURKEY SANDWICH
15 HAVING NOTHING, AND YET POSSESSING EVERYTHING
24 THE CALL TO HOLINESS OR, IF YOU WANT TO BE A SAINT
To
Catherine and Loi, the lights of my life. Thanks for your patience and understanding these past few years when I often had to divide my time, energy, and attention between you and the book. Thank you for helping me find joy in the present moment and for making it easy