My 100 Days With Mother Teresa

About this book

In 1973, a lost twenty-year-old knocked on Mother Teresa's door in Calcutta-and her life was never the same.What followed were four extraordinary months living and working alongside Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity, serving orphans, lepers, and the dying in the heart of the city. The author arrived searching for answers, carrying deep confusion about faith, purpose, and belonging. She left with her life irrevocably redirected.My 100 Days with Mother Teresa is a rare, firsthand memoir of daily life inside Mother Teresa's world, written long before she became a global icon. Told through short, reflective chapters, the book brings readers into orphanages, leper colonies, and the Home for the Dying-where love was practiced not as an idea, but as work.This is not a distant biography or polished tribute. Mother Teresa appears here as she was experienced up close: intensely present, practical, demanding, and unwavering in her insistence on cheerfulness, discipline, and love in action. Through nearly daily conversations, she challenges the author's doubts, tends to her physical and emotional wounds, and teaches without preaching.As the days pass, the author's inner turmoil begins to soften. Questions are not neatly answered, but transformed. The young woman who arrived uncertain and unmoored begins to discover direction, dignity, and a sense of purpose that would later lead her into a life of medicine and service.At its heart, My 100 Days with Mother Teresa is a story of spiritual homelessness and belonging-of learning that holiness is found not in grand gestures or perfect beliefs, but in showing up, touching suffering, and choosing love in small, faithful ways.This book is for anyone who has ever felt lost, disillusioned, or hungry for a faith that works in the real world.