“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hand with which He is to bless us now.” St. Teresa of Avila
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and just want to crawl right back into bed. I want to pull the covers over my head and shut out the world. The news gets worse every day and the sufferings of the human race seem great. It can get overwhelming, but then I think of all the faces around the world that I have met. People in slums, orphanages, trash dumps, bars, and other places I have been blessed to go. The smiles, through the obvious pain and brokenness, of those people slice through my selfishness. Who am I to say that there is no hope?
Sometimes I pray to God that he would give me a lot of money to help countless lives. Then he tells me that there would be no need for Him, no need to have Faith. Money can do wonders, but it can’t compare to what Christ can do. So I pray for more faith.
The focus and desire to help those in far off places can start to overshadow the pain that’s around us. There is no measure of brokenness, nor comparison of hurt. God sees it all as the same and so should we. It’s important to reach the unreached and go
to the places most would not; but it is equally important to also touch the lives of those around us.
We are a portal to which God’s good grace flows.
No good deed is too small and no kind gesture is miniscule.
God does want to send us places, but is in that frustration of not knowing where to go that he whispers to us: I am wherever you ask me to be and I am needed everywhere. Why not be empowered by that? Why not wake up each morning ready to be used?
We are to boldly reflect Christ in the way we live our lives, and we are to be his light everywhere we go. Each step we take is to be his step, we are to see with his heart, and our hands are to do his work.
