Hands and Feet

In today's gospel "a leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched the leper, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." Mark 1:40-41.

Coming from communion, I read in my commentary (Living With Christ):  "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.  Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on the world.  Yours are the feet with which he goes about doing good, and yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world."  -St. Teresa of Avila.

Lord, help me, when someone asks me "will you help me," respond by saying, "Yes, I want to."

 

He longs for our hearts.

"(I)f you open the Old Testament,you will feel and hear what the eternal God tells us through the prophets. What does he want? He wants our hearts. He longs for our hearts." Fr. Kentenich, The Game of Love, p. 44.

Almighty God wants my heart, my love? How could He want the love of such a one as me? And yet, if He does, I want to love Him more.  Lord, help me to love you more this year.