Christian Reflection and Prayer

Shortly before his death, the famous American missionary
doctor, Tom Dooley, returned to the U.S. to raise additional
funds for his hospital in Southeast Asia. As a doctor, he
knew he had terminal cancer and would soon be dead.
However, the big question on his mind was whether, under
the circumstances, he should spend his last days in the
country of his birth or return to his hospital in Southeast
Asia where the people needed him. While he was debating
this in his mind, a telegram arrived from some of the medical
corpsmen he had trained to be his helpers at the hospital.
"We need you here," the message read, and then went on
to say: "While you are gone, we are the fingers of your flesh
to heal the sick. We are your ears to hear their cries of pain.
We are your heart to love them." And that is precisely the
response Jesus asks of us. He sends us into a world and
a community where people need us. Consequently, we
pray to the Lord Jesus: "We are the fingers of your flesh
to heal them, we are your ears to hear their cries of pain,
we are your heart to love them."

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