Christ has no Body now but yours

Helpful words below from Teresa of Avila and Oscar  Romero

Christ has no Body now but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
Yours are the eyes through which he looks
Compassion on the world
Yours are the feet with which he walks
To do good
Yours are the hands with which he blesses
All the world.


Yours are the hands
Yours are the feet
Yours are the eyes
You are his body

It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts it is even beyond our vision.

Lord, we know in whom we believe.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work

Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.

 Lord, we know in whom we believe
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith
No confession brings perfection
No set of goals and objectives includes everything
Lord, we know in whom we believe.
This is what we are about.


We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
Lord we know in whom we believe

We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that
This enables us to do something,
And to do it very well
It may be incomplete but it is a beginning,
A step along the way, an opportunity for the Lords grace to enter and do the rest.
Lord we know in whom we believe We may never see the end results,
But that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers,
Not master builders,
Ministers, Not messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Lord, we trust in you to eternally renew our belief in you
In ourselves and in each other, in this is our joy and our hope. Amen