They eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

1 Corinthians 12:21-26

All body parts matter. Maybe except the appendix. No one in this illustration is the appendix. If one member suffers, all suffer together. Because the parts are interdependent and connected. When your ear hurts, it may feel like your spleen doesn’t understand it, but because the body hurts over the ear, thus the spleen is affected when the body is not working at its optimal. And if you were the spleen, you might not even know that you’re affected because you’ve been fine hiding in there amongst the other organs that seem to be working. But trauma and pain will eventually reach you and when it does, oof, code blue. So do you have the faith to trust that another body part is hurting even when you are not that body part, or even adjacent to that body part? Do you have the faith and love to see that each body part is necessary and vital to the whole being working. You alone, in your specific body functions, will not be enough. And the parts that you most don’t think are significant to your functioning, are probably the ones you should be focusing on right now. All body parts matter. When you hear that are there some body parts you’re not endowing that truth and experience upon?

May we be spleens that are compassionate and smart enough to shout, The ear matters, and after that, fight so that other body parts believe that as well!

Prayer: God help me to be the function that I was created to live into and do my part for this body.

What is your role in the body?