Posted by The WORD in other words (2006) by Sister Anchille Elvena SSpS
Saturday 1st Week Advent
The surgeon had reason to worry. She could lose the patient to hemorrhage before the surgery is over. Not, if there is someone willing to donate blood immediately. The Nurse Supervisor felt her heart quicken. She had the same blood type as the patient. Will she give her blood to save the patient? But, she does not even know this person. Oh yes, her name is written on the chart. But she had just donated blood recently and today, she had been on her toes since early morning.
“No matter,” she decided. With that she took off her OR cap and mask and prepared herself for the bloodletting.
“As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick …Without cost you received; without cost you are to give.” ( Mt 10:8).
Because somebody who received without cost decided to give, somebody continued to live and the reign of God became real, visible and as palpable as a patient’s pulsating heart.
When was the last time I felt the reign of God so real in my experience? How did it come about? Do my choices proclaim that the reign of God is at hand?
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