One Body...Many Parts

Have you ever thought about all the parts of your body and their purpose?!? I mean, your nose looks so different from your ears and the purpose is so completely different, but both have big jobs. Granted, I'm seriously thankful I don't have multiple noses. Can you imagine....working in an elementary school, next to the bathrooms with TWO noses?!? I already smell some pretty atrocious things...but if I had noses on both sides of my head I couldn't ever turn away from the smell! I'd walk around with "ear-muff-like-nose-muffs"!  Our mouths, they have quite the responsibility to communicate with others! Shoot, I'm sure there are some who are thankful I only have one of those! Now let's think about the heart, it pumps blood throughout our body using the veins. The veins are so unlike the heart yet completely vital in sustaining our life. Wow, when I think about all the necessary parts, nose for breathing, heart for pumping, veins for transporting, and a brain that tells each part to do its job, I'm amazed at the importance of each individual part of our body. Have you ever thought about telling one part of your body you don't need them?! "Hey lung...I don't think I need to breathe today!" Yah right?!? 

The pastor's sermon this week was based out of 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. (Side note: I have THE BEST pastor around...for real...he's better than yours!)  The scripture is in reference to the church being one body, all having different jobs to keep the church functioning and alive.   The part that stuck out to me the most was found in verse 15 & 16. “Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being 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 stop being part of the body.”

1 Corinthians 12:15-16 NIV. How true is this verse...each part is needed. 

As I listened to the sermon I very quickly made a connection to school. Each teacher, aide, secretary, nurse, administrator, cook, and janitor, has a special and nessacary job. Each job is filled by unique and highly qualified individuals. Each individual carries a skill set unlike their neighbor. It is not one "part's" responsibility to say or think of another "you are not needed" because in reality everyone is needed. 

Each individual picture makes a very incomplete picture of the whole body or face. But when I piece each picture together and look at the whole "body" I can see the true picture of the person/school. 

So as we go throughout the next few weeks and months, remember each member of our "body" has an important job and is needed.  We need the one who smells the mischief children. We need the one who hears the cry for help. We need the one who feels the emotions of students. We need the one who pumps energy into the hearts and minds of the whole school. We need EVERYONE! 

Are you valuing each part of the body you work with or are you trying to say to another part they aren't needed?