Before I go to bed at night, I examine my hands: I make sure they are empty. This means I have given it all in my day.
Before I wake in the morning, I examine my hands: I make sure they are empty. For this means I am ready to receive it all in my day.
When I follow Christ, I examine my hands: I make sure they are empty and bear his wounds. For now giving and receiving have become one.
—Michael Martinez, SJ, a Jesuit scholastic of the Antilles Jesuit province, writes from Arrupe House, on the campus of Loyola University Chicago.