Day 50 – Stained Glass

Day 50 – Wow – halfway to the goal of 100 days!!!
I was incredibly blessed today as always. My middle daughter has decided to help a group called Interfaith by doing a play with many people from several different churches. She is doing service hours by being in a play. Not quite sure how that is doing service hours by doing something you love – but more power to her. Anyway, each week they have rehearsal at a new church in Akron, OH. I really love seeing each new church as they are all old and have such character to them. They aren't four walls but instead intricate architecture. This week, we were at a church that had so many stained glass windows. Each one told a detailed story about the life of Christ. I just sat there in awe of how each piece had to be cut, ground and formed to fit into this elaborate picture. There were thousands in each piece. I will hopefully include a picture or two here on the blog. I was just amazed at how perfect each piece looked and how each piece had a place and played a part in the picture.

We are all the body of Christ. We are all being refined and we all have a part that we play in life. We all fit into an elaborate picture that God has placed and we each have a story we can tell about how God has touched our lives. We are an intricate piece of artwork called the body of Christ. Just like the stained glass, without even one piece of the body or stained glass, we would be broken and not fit together. Each piece is so incredibly important to His master plan. If you have ever wondered what your purpose is, remember that without you, we all suffer and we need each other to complete His work.

I Corinthians 12:14-28

¹⁴Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. ¹⁵If 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. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷If 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? ¹⁸But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. ¹⁹If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

 ²¹The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" ²²On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, ²⁴while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, ²⁵so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. ²⁶If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

 ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. ²⁸And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.