Two years ago, Murfreesboro resident Bonnie Tinsley and her husband Cliff Richeson, along with people around the world, were looking forward to Mother Teresa’s canonization. Tinsley and Richeson were also reminiscing about their personal encounter with the saint, and how she helped them adopt their baby daughter. “Without her blessing, it wouldn’t have happened,” Tinsley said.
“It’s still so alive in my memory,” Tinsley said of meeting Mother Teresa and working to adopt baby Pema from a Missionaries of Charity orphanage while she and Richeson were living in India in the mid-1980s.