Part of the Body

For the last two days the coordinator in our office has been away.  Most of us seem to be able to be absent without being noticed but this lady is the glue that keeps everything running smoothly.  Its amazing how much scrambling we have to do to figure out everything...  We are all tempted to think that we are not important - that we would not be missed if we just disappeared, but the reality is that we have all been made unique with something special to offer this world.  When we are not able to make a contribution, or when we just fail to do so, the whole community has to adjust.  We are not as independent as we think we are.  We are in fact all interconnected in a multitude of ways.  That is the way God made us and intended us to be - especially in the Christian community.  No one can be a lone ranger.

"Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.  If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.  And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.  If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?  If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is there are many parts, but one body."  (1 Corinthians 12:14-20)