February 26
“We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.
We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.”
-Caryll Houselander
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February 25
“Everything that Christ said and did and experienced on earth is the Word saying, 'see how God loves you!'”
-Caryll Houselander
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In spite of the hype from the mainstream media, a new study from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health is claiming that abortion is 44 times safer than childbirth, but a closer look behind the headlines reveals that this conclusion is based on “junk data.”
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We find in the temptations of Jesus an example of one person who didn’t fall for Satan’s tricks. The account of His temptation in the desert gives invaluable instruction to the faithful and reads almost like a “how to” guide for discovering the wiles of Satan in order that we might be prepared.
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February 24
“Disasters are not God’s will; they are the result of sin and opposed to God’s will. But in His mercy He does allow that the suffering resulting from them, though never the sin that caused them, can be caught up into His love and do good.”
-Caryll Houselander
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February 23
“Rest is not idleness; indeed, restlessness is the torment of idle people. It is not relaxation. Relaxation should never be necessary, because the nervous tension which makes it so should never be present. Rest, far from being relaxation, is a culmination, a fullness of gathered peace, like the fullness and stillness of waters gathered to a flood tide.”
-Caryll Houselander
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February 22
“... small sufferings of every day, such as the ‘slights’ which literally corrode those who try to endure them in their own strength. But in those in whom Christ abides, it is Christ who suffers every humiliation…”
-Caryll Houselander
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February 21
“Suffering does not redeem simply because it is suffering... Suffering does not necessarily help at all; it does not necessarily unite us to God, in fact it can separate from Him. Suffering can make us bitter, cynical, cruel; it can drive us to despair. What matters to us is not that we suffer, or that we suffer a little or a lot, but that Christ suffers in us. Not that our lives are small or are lived on a heroic scale, but that they are lived by Christ in us...”
-Caryll Houselander
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February 20
“His presence in [difficult people] may save us from some particular sin. They may be, to us, Christ forgiving, Christ in his patience, Christ teaching. They may be Christ in His weariness, or Christ in His fear of Gethsemane, Christ facing His death… They may come as Christ in that particular need of His…”
-Caryll Houselander
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We have had numerous questions over the years from people wondering if they should continue to visit a doctor who offers New Age healing methods in his/her practice, even if the patient specifically requests that the doctor not use these methods when treating them. In this case, is there any harm in continuing to see these doctors?
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