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Lectio + Haiku -- September 2007
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Haiku
I am not like chaff
Yet I am winnowed and lost
Adrift on the wind
-- Nan,
Springfield, IL
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Backside of my eye
created to see, wholeness,
mystic, within thee.
-- Karen, Port Townsend
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My faith’s weak, my doubt’s
strong, and each finds the other
indispensable.
-- Margaret, In the Courtyard
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Scripture
In this month's passage, Paul riffs on the
interdependence of all people.
I Corinthians 12:13b–22, 24–26
We were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member
but of many. If the foot would say, “Because
I am not
a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that
would not
make it any less a part of the body. And if
the ear
would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not
belong
to the body,” that would not make it any less
a part
of the body. If the whole body were an eye,
where would the hearing be? If the whole body
were
hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
But as it is, God arranged the members in the
body,
each one of them, as he chose. If all were a
single
member, where would the body be? As it is,
there are many members, yet one body.
The 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 members of the body that
seem
to be weaker are indispensable…
God has so arranged the body … [that] the
members
may have the same care for one another. If
one member
suffers, all suffer together with it; if one
member
is honored, all rejoice together with it.
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