Be The Hands, The Feet, The Body...

"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 for the world is to look out. Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now." St. Teresa of Avila

 We all know that God is with us no matter where we go, and He sends blessings down to us every day. But He is not physically here on earth. He is not a human being down here with us with hands and feet. So why does this matter to us? Isn't it enough that He is just with us, maybe not physically, but spiritually? Well, it is great to know that wherever we go He will go with us, and He always will, but we need to go out in this world that we live in and be those hands, be those feet, and be the body of Christ! I know what you are thinking, "Whoa.. That seems like a big task and some huge shoes to fill. I don't know if I can do that..." Let me assure you that you don't need to complete huge tasks to be the body of Christ. What you need to do is treat people with kindness, bless others, and just treat other like He would if He were down here on earth. So today go out, and just start with the little things, open the door for someone, give someone a hand when their's are full, and just say hello to somebody and smile. If you start off by doing small things like this, God will show you what to do next to be His hands, His feet, His body.