February 9- We are all a Part

Well it is Friday and not only have I survived working for 5 days in a row, but the engineers, surveyors, GIS guys, and materials testers at this place that I’ve driven nuts all week have survived as well. One guy brought a document to me and said “I need to fax this.” He tried to use the postage machine and Itried to use the hole puncher then I said “I’d find a secretary if I were you. Oh, wait, that’s me! Let’s see if we can find an engineer that can help us with this.” It’s been fun for me; maybe not so much for them. 

You know, some of us are simply very good at some things and others excellent at other things. I don’t do office machines very well even though I worked in an office for many years. I can make a computer pretty much do anything I want, but don’t tell me to use the giant printer to fax, scan and do the salsa. It’s probably not gonna happen. I can answer phones, but I end up talking to whom ever is on the line. About anything, the weather, what they had for lunch, if their team won the Super Bowl...it doesn’t matter, I just like people and I like to talk and get to know them. 

Bottom line, we are all different. Very different. But because we are different, we can fit together—fill each other’s gaps and let one’s strengths plug another’s weakness. Sort of like puzzle pieces with those notches and ears. And the one thing we do know for sure is that we have all been made perfectly—exactly as God intended us to be made. 

“...A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it....What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, “Get lost; I don’t need you”? Or, Head telling Foot, “You’re fired; your job has been phased out”? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it’s a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn’t you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair? ...You are Christ’s body—that’s who you are! You must never forget this. ...”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭12:14-24, 27-31‬ ‭MSG‬‬

So whether you are a doctor or a hairdresser or a shoe salesman or (like me for one more day) a phone answerer or an engineer who jumps every time I walk in the room—you are a part—we are all a part and it takes every stinkin’ one of us! 

Oh great Jehovah, El Roi (the God who sees) we praise You for making us exactly the way we were supposed to be. Thank you for our gifts and talents and we pray for the wisdom to utilize those to our best abilities and to forever further Your kingdom and to always glorify You. You are good and you are kind. You are the Almighty King of Kings. Amen and amen. 

Love you dear one,

Pam