Dee Jepsen was an assistant...
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Dee Jepsen was an assistant to her husband when he served as a member of the United States Senate. She quickly became aware of the wheel and deal, power-hungry atmosphere of Washington, D.C., politics. One day she realized that there are some things more powerful and important than the game of influence. One day as she was attending a Capitol Hill luncheon for Mother Teresa she began to realize the unimportance of sophistication. When Mother Teresa entered the room she was wearing her familiar blue and white habit along with a gray sweater that had seen its better days. As this tiny woman walked into the room, her bare feet in worn sandals, Dee was amazed to see some of the most powerful leaders in this country stand to their feet with tears in their eyes, simply because they were in her presence. Of the occasion Dee wrote: "It was a paradox. She has reached down into the gutter and loved and given. She has loved those the world sees as unlovable -- the desolate, the dying -- because they are created in the image of the God she serves. Ironically, seeking nothing for herself, she has been raised to the pinnacle of world recognition, received the Nobel Peace Prize, and is a figure known to most people, at least in the Western world, and revered by many. She has nothing, yet in a strange way, she has everything." (Dee Jepsen, Women Beyond Equal Rights, (Waco: Word), 1984, pp. 52-53.) -- Angus
