Third Sunday – Ordinary Time Cycle C

Reflecting on I Corinthians 12:12-30

Two years ago I had a very difficult illness.  After five hospitalizations my veins were terrible and it became more and more difficult to place the I.V. for hydration and medication.  But I was going to recover from all of this with just one last surgery!  I was prepped and ready, but neither the surgical nurse nor the anesthesiologist could find a vein for the I.V. At this moment the curtains in the little room opened and a woman (a nurse at that hospital) who had been in my Scripture class years before anxiously stepped in.

“I saw your name on the board and I heard they can’t get the I.V. in.  Give me that.”  She took the needle, lifted my arm

We are one Body in Christ

and got that I.V. going in one try.  Ah, the Body of Christ.

And then there was the card from the friend that had the exact Scripture passage that I had been reading before I opened the card.  And the strong friend who happened to come by the hospital at the time they were deciding not to discharge me that day because there wasn’t anyone strong enough to carry me into my house.  And the lemon drops my brother brought to the hospital, which turned out to be the only thing that could help the nausea.  And my sister sending money for flowers and my brother deciding I’d rather have Chinese food, and the fortune that arrived with the lunch:  You will live a long a healthy life.

We are one Body, one Body in Christ.  And we do not stand alone.

Sharing God’s Word at Home:

In what ways do you need the other members of the Body, and how is the Body incomplete without you?

Ordinary Time - Cycle C