July 6

Some years ago Calcutta experienced a great shortage of sugar. One day, a boy about four years old came to see me with his parents. They brought me a small container of sugar.

When they handed it to me, the little one told me: “I have spent three days without eating any sugar. Take it. This is for your children.”

The little one loved with an intense love. He had expressed it by a personal sacrifice. I repeat: he was no more than three or four years old. He could hardly say my name. I did not know him; I had never seen him before. Nor had I met his parents. The boy made that decision after he found out, from the grownups, about my situation.

Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, p 45