The Body is a Unit. 1Cor. 12:12

I had not really comprehended the Christian Body of Believers until now.

This week THE BODY manifested itself in Christ-like service.

Here is the ordeal.

My wife and I are expecting our second boy in February, 2010. She had minor complication with our first pregnancy, and these problems reared again for this one too. While we were away for Thanksgiving week she was hospitalized Friday Nov. 27 for the likings of a kidney stone. It was not. They had to give Julie a minor epidural and so forth to relieve her pain. It worked.

No worries right?

Wrong!!!

Three days later we are back in our home town and back in the ER. Extensive vomiting and excruciating headaches for my poor wife.

Turns out the epidural from the Friday op had left a leak in her spinal column and her spinal fluid was emptying leaving her brain to rest on who knows what part of her spine.

How does THE BODY fit into all the this you may ask?

1. One call to a friend to take care of our first 22 month old boy, 10 minutes later the help arrived and cared for Brody for the afternoon.
2. Then another call and a friend had made plans to spend the night at our house to care for our son overnight.
3. Not only this overnight stay, but she organized a few others to go over to our house and clean, tidy, make beds, do the dishes. Everything to be done from being a way for the week prior.

Oh but it doesn't end there...

1. Guys from our community group step up the next morning and carry me off to breakfast and some company. Just to get me away from the hospital for a while while Julie gets prepped for surgery.
2. Plans for Brody are made at this meal and another member from our group picks up Brody from the baby sitter to be cared for during the afternoon.

That evening we are discharged after a relatively successful operation and on our way home.

We arrive to a clean and tidy house.

1. Then we receive a phone call, another family in our small group is bringing us dinner.
2. I receive a text not long after from another family from our small group to organize a meal for us on Thursday.
3. Needless to say our freezer has been stocked with casseroles prepared by groups of college students who went out of their way to show Christ's love.

Our life was in turmoil. We had no control.

We were hurting, and we were cared for....

THE BODY of believers stepped up and did what true Christians should do for each other.

Thank you all who prayed for us and helped me grow closer to understanding what it means to be THE BODY OF CHRIST!!!