Question about I thirst for you prayer?

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I posted this thread recently a beautiful prayer called Thirst for You - A Prayer based on words by Our Lord Jesus Christ to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
The thing is I always thought it was meant for everyone but some think it was a private revelation to Mother Theresa? Can anyone confirm this? Or is it actually meant for us all? I really hope it is as I get great comfort from it.
 
He blesses many with revelations meant for us all. This is straight from the catechism.

2559 "Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."2 But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or “out of the depths” of a humble and contrite heart?3 He who humbles himself will be exalted;4 humility is the foundation of prayer, Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to pray as we ought,"5 are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer. "Man is a beggar before God."6

2560 "If you knew the gift of God!"7 The wonder of prayer is revealed beside the well where we come seeking water: there, Christ comes to meet every human being. It is he who first seeks us and asks us for a drink. Jesus thirsts; his asking arises from the depths of God’s desire for us. Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.8

2561 "You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."9 Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God: "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water!"10 Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God.11
 
Some would say that St. Teresa shared this with all of us as a meditation. God loves all of us. Surely these words apply to everyone. Read them, be comforted by them and do not worry about whether they are only meant for her. She shared these words with us so we too can reflect on God’s love for us. 🙂
 
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