Sunday, October 29, 2017

The Henri Nouwen Society of Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Daily Meditation: "One Body with Many Parts" for Sunday, 29 October 2017

The Henri Nouwen Society of Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Daily Meditation: "One Body with Many Parts" for Sunday, 29 October 2017
DAILY MEDITATION: "
One Body with Many Parts" for Sunday, 29 
October 2017
Photo courtesy of Marc Betsworth
The Church is one body. Paul writes, "We were baptised into one body in a single Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:13). But this one body has many parts. As Paul says, "If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one" (1 Corinthians 12:19). Not everyone can be everything. Often we expect one member of the body to fulfill a task that belongs to others. But the hand cannot be asked to see nor the eye to hear.
Together we are Christ's body, each of us with a part to play in the whole (see 1 Corinthians 12:27). Let's be grateful for our limited but real part in the body.

For further reflection...
"The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts..." (1 Corinthians 12: 12 (NIV))
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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.
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