God's Hospital

"If you feel too spiritually maimed to come to the feast, please realize that the Church is not a monastery for perfect people, though all of us ought to be striving on the road to godliness. No, at least one aspect of the Church is more like a hospital or an aid station,

provided for those who are ill and want to get well." ~Jeffrey R. Holland

Life can - and will - batter us emotionally, and we all need the healing that only Jesus Christ can bring. Meeting with fellow life-battered patients each week to partake of God's holy healing can do wonders for the soul, and place us on the road to recovery, provided that we follow the Lord's regimen and take the proper spiritual medications as recommended. That includes feasting on His words, then fully implementing them in our lives and enduring to the end in righteousness.
Then, when we are close to the finish line and find ourselves too worn or broken down to hobble another step, if we call on Him, the Lord will lift us and carry us the rest of the way.

He has always carried His people. And He always will.