Transplanting Christ’s Body and Transfusing Christ’s Blood

We partake of the Sacrament as symbols of Christ's body and His blood and as symbols of the sacrifice He made. But I think there is a deeper meaning behind why we are asked to partake of His blood and His body. In the battle of good and evil, in the struggle to improve ourselves, in the fight for our very souls, we are often left wounded and bleeding out. Life chews us up and spits us out, bloody and bruised and battered and broken. Up until quite recently, if we lost too much blood or our organs failed, that was it. But now we have blood transfusions and organ transplants that can keep us from dying and help us regain our health and strength. When we partake of the Sacrament, we are taking in Christ's blood to replace that which we lost in the struggle for our souls. When we partake of the Sacrament, we are taking in Christ's body to replace the organs that have been damaged or lost. If our heart is broken beyond repair, then Christ will give us a new heart. In fact, He will give us His heart. When we can no longer see the good in ourselves or the world in general, Christ will give us His eyes. When we can no longer hear the still, small voice of the Spirit, Christ will give us His ears. When we can no longer say, Father, forgive me, Christ will give us His voice. Some of us go out day after day and week after week and bleed and bleed and bleed from the evils and tragedies of the world outside and the personal demons that haunt us inside. But week after week, we have the opportunity to receive a blood transfusion from the Sacrament. We have the opportunity to replace the broken and damaged parts of our soul, and then come back the next week and replace them again, and then come back the week after that and replace them again. Christ is the universal donor and He gives His blood and His body to us not just once in Jerusalem two thousand years ago but week after week after week. If we feel too weak, too raw, too bloody to carry on, we can always take the Sacrament and the Savior's blood and His body to replace what we've lost and give us the strength and the courage to try one more week.