BLOGGING
Since KB brought me a much newer and faster computer it has been a pleasure to read and write. Writing, though, is still a challenge due to my neuropathy. My fingers will not do what I think them to do. Don’t they know I am in charge of them? They seem to have a mind of their own. That reminds me of what Paul said about the members of the body of Chirst: (from a paraphrase by E. Peterson)
1 Cor 12:15-27
15 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? 16 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? 17 If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? 18 As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. 19 But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. 20 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. 21 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"? 22 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. 23 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. 24 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? 25 The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, 26 the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. 27 You are Christ's body — that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
I have a ‘lazy eye’; regardless of where I tell it to focus, it almost always looks to the right (I’m glad it is not a leftist).
I’ve been reading too many blogs today; it’s fun but it’s tiring. As my son, Jimmy, asks when he call me on the phone: “Are you through with me?”. “Yes”, I say.” “Well, bye”.
THE END
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