Guest post by <\/i>Julie Cragon<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n Our first transaction of the day was actually a return, so we started $3.48 in the red. We laughed \u00a0at the irony that we\u2019d worried about a potential \u201closs of business day.\u201d Then a man came for a Baptismal candle he needed for Sunday, and he was glad to see that we had braved the storm to be open for a few hours. But the real reason God sent us to open for those few hours came \u00a0in the door a little after noon.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Today we have another reflection from our guest Julie Cragon of Nashville, Tennessee. \u00a0It is a powerful example of how Christ works through His children and allows us to be His partners in the \u201cministry of reconciliation\u201d as \u201cwe are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us.\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:18-20) Guest post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dmDaLWNETzg\/S84F7rPZrrI\/AAAAAAAABV4\/jNDiJmBTGzs\/s1600\/hands.jpg\")
<\/a>Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
Christ looks compassion into the world.
Yours are the feet
with which Christ walks to do good.
Yours are the hands
with which Christ blesses the world.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span>
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I <\/i>give each of my children\u2019s teachers a card with this prayer as a thank-you note at the end of the school year. With all I see that goes on in schools today, I know that Christ works through these men and women as they witness to our Catholic faith.\u00a0But this prayer also brings to mind an encounter this past February on a Saturday, when Nashville was pretty well shut down due to icy road conditions. My husband,\u00a0Allen,\u00a0<\/span>and I ventured to open\u00a0our bookstore <\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>around 10:30 or 11:00, answer a few phone calls, \u00a0and wait on a handful of customers.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-4351535073521148993?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\")