Just a Pompon Routine?
Today’s Quote: This verse is from “As You Like It”. When I sang this song in my college choir, I had no idea I was singing something from Shakespeare! (I think, Gene Wilder sang part of this in Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.) “It was a lover and his lass, with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino, that o’er the green corn field did pass, in a spring-time, the only pretty ring-time, when birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding, sweet lovers love the spring.” As You Like It 5.3.15-20.
Last night I went to watch my niece Kayla and her pompon squad perform at the halftime of the Novi High School soccer game. It was fun to watch Kayla and her friends (even if it was very cold!) smile and execute each move that made up their dance. They work very hard at it. It must take a long time to learn how to move in sync with all of the others on the squad. Each move is part of a whole, and doesn’t mean much on its own. However, if anyone is off in her own move, it will affect the whole. (As I saw when one of the girls didn’t get into the right place for the kick line, at first. If she hadn’t corrected her position, the kick line symmetry would have been thrown off.)
I was wondering if that isn’t how the body of Christ sometimes tries to be. We, as individuals sometimes try to work on our own, forgetting we are part of a larger body. (Like watching only one pompon girl do her routine; nice, but it is much better when done as part of the whole group. A greater appreciation is formed for each girls’ work to make up the whole.) We all need to be in sync with each other to better coordinate the dance God has created for us all to be part of. Each move is needed to perfect the master picture. Each person is important in the whole picture. But, if we get too bogged down in doing our own thing, and don’t pay attention to the bigger dance we are part of, the chorography of the whole bigger picture is messed up.
“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all of its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ” “Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it.” I Corinthians 12:12, 27
Have you thought about how your part fits into the whole routine God has created?
Blessings!
Last night I went to watch my niece Kayla and her pompon squad perform at the halftime of the Novi High School soccer game. It was fun to watch Kayla and her friends (even if it was very cold!) smile and execute each move that made up their dance. They work very hard at it. It must take a long time to learn how to move in sync with all of the others on the squad. Each move is part of a whole, and doesn’t mean much on its own. However, if anyone is off in her own move, it will affect the whole. (As I saw when one of the girls didn’t get into the right place for the kick line, at first. If she hadn’t corrected her position, the kick line symmetry would have been thrown off.)
I was wondering if that isn’t how the body of Christ sometimes tries to be. We, as individuals sometimes try to work on our own, forgetting we are part of a larger body. (Like watching only one pompon girl do her routine; nice, but it is much better when done as part of the whole group. A greater appreciation is formed for each girls’ work to make up the whole.) We all need to be in sync with each other to better coordinate the dance God has created for us all to be part of. Each move is needed to perfect the master picture. Each person is important in the whole picture. But, if we get too bogged down in doing our own thing, and don’t pay attention to the bigger dance we are part of, the chorography of the whole bigger picture is messed up.
“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all of its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ” “Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it.” I Corinthians 12:12, 27
Have you thought about how your part fits into the whole routine God has created?
Blessings!
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