Mother Teresa...

[Thanks to Real Live Preacher for the link]

I was reading an article that RLP referred to in one of his recent posts when I came upon this:

How else could this unremarkable woman [Mother Teresa], no different from the rest of us, bear to throw her lot in with the poorest of the poor, sharing their meager diet and rough clothing, wiping leprous sores and enduring the agonies of the dying, for so many years without respite, unless she were somehow lifted above it all, shielded by spiritual endorphins? Yet we have her own testimony that what made her self-negating work possible was not a subjective experience of ecstasy but an objective relationship to God shorn of the sensible awareness of God's presence.

-- from The Dark Night of Mother Teresa Carol Zaleski, First Things

A relationship with God isn't about the pleasure He gives us, or about staying out of Hell. God's work is not motivated by fear, or hope for a reward. But the relationship still exists, the work is being done... What do you think "its about"?