Now that we are liturgically in" ORDINARY TIME" , I thought to settle back into ordinary days. Of course, there is no such thing. Bad weather and polar temperatures in the Southeast Ky mountains where I serve in a rural health clinic as a family nurse practitioner has provided multiple challenges. It has been difficult to get to work with icy mountain roads for providers as well as for patients. This leads to multiple phone calls trying to diagnose and treat medical problems per phone calls. That is never a safe or healthy practice.
Amidst the confusion and frustration within myself and patients, I settled my meditation into Teresa of Avila's passage:
Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ's
compassion is to look out to the world.
Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
go around doing good.
Yours are the hands with which Christ is
to bless all people now.
So now is the time for myself and all of us to brace up and serve one another with kindness, goodness and patient compassion all the while praising our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Peace be with all.
Sr. Joan Gripshover, OSB
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