Talent Galore!

Yesterday, all the Sunday school classes in our small church began with a few minutes

of cutting out bells, stars, bulbs or Christmas tree shapes from old Christmas cards.

These will be used in decorating our church later this week..

Most of us traced our shapes from cookie-cutter patterns. 

This free-form cutout was my favorite--for its originality, the skillful cutting, 

and selection of background pattern and color.

(Note to self:  Next time, cut out front and back together with cards'
images showing on both sides. These could be glued together, laminated or not, and hung.)

This is the guy who did it!

I would never have guessed he had this talent.

It makes me excited to discover what additional abilities and gifts reside

in my "brothers and sisters" in Christ! 

Writing about the unique gifts God has given every person in the church,

the Apostle Paul compared them to body parts - each with special functions...

 God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.  The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!"  And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"...  God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.  Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it,

(I Corinthians 12:8-27)