My feet can't digest food!

I know it's long, but you have to read this. It's incredible!

1 Corinthians 12:12-24 (The Message)

"You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything.  (verse 12)
 ^14-18I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. 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? 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? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
 ^19-24But 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. 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. 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"? 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. 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. 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?"

I guess you have to read this a few times to really comprehend it. But once you do, it makes SO much sense. This is so, because I realize that I do not posses every gift, & I don't have to.

The eyes cannot hear.

The ears cannot see. But they each, in their own way, GREATLY contribute to the WHOLE body. Likewise, I need not get depressed when I can't do what another member of the Body can. (The body of Christ, I mean =)

I don't have certain spiritual gifts (which it talks about earlier in the chapter), & others don't have my gifts. I see that with the people I live with. And I rejoice when I see how ALL of our gifts make up the Body of Christ!

Isn't it pretty amazing to think that? Like, every body part on the human body, contributes. And if you do something that furthers the Kingdom, but I can't do it, then that's okay! Because the feet legs don't perform the stomachs job!

p.s. You all were right about the ingredients. Tea it is!