01/10/2020
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I have been watching the daily prayer from for months now; since I came out of depression. I continued to watch even throughout later dips in mood that have happened since April. I have felt so blessed by them. I haven't been able to express my gratitude by commenting on videos or sharing them as I haven't been on Facebook since around September 2019. So I'm sharing this today.
Today's prayer can be found at:
https://www.facebook.com/christchurchw4/videos/656565711911076/
I found today's prayer particularly thought provoking. It made me consider the ways in which I'm able to influence my online and offline world. It made me consider the ways in which I can become a blessing to people online and offline.
As Teresa of Avila taught us:
"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 this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
We are incarnations of the same 'Spirit of God [that] was hovering over the waters ' even when 'the earth was formless and empty, [and] darkness was over the surface of the deep' as it says in Genesis 1:2. We have in us the same spirit that guided the prophets to complete the work that God assigned to them. We have the same 'Holy Spirit [that] descended on [Jesus] in bodily form like a dove' prior to God's voice coming from heaven to proclaim: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."
Jusus, when speaking to his deciples who he is about to leave, promises to 'ask the Father [to] give [to us] another advocate to help [us] and be with [us] forever— the Spirit of truth' (John 14:16). We too as deciples of Christ are filled with this same spirit of truth; and though as Jesus warned the 'world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him' but he also pointed out that we 'know him, for he lives with [us] and will be in [us]' (John 14:17).
Continued in comments.
