needless appendages???

so what would the human race look like if we had no finger nails? would life be different? would anything change? or if our feet were actually one solid mass instead of having toes, how would we live?

you know these may not tickle your thoughts very often (or at all), but things like this cross my mind from time to time, but more-or-less get me onto the subject i want to get, you know, transition. each individual part of the body has specific reasons with specific purposes and ways of working. and if you break it down, molecularly, there are millions, billions, quadrillions of individual cells that complete and make our bodies work in unity and harmony and make our lives seem normal and let us take many daily activities to be routine and overlooked with intentional thought (natural reflex).

but (and you knew there was a but coming), think of all the smaller, less significant parts of the body that truly are not needed in maintaining the existence of the body. now not say they are absolutely meaningless and need to be thrown out, but they are not drastically needed.

my correlation is that with how the Word diagrams it. we are the "body" of Christ. so does that mean that individuals, those "cells" who make up a finger nail, a toe nail, a calloused piece of skin, or even so remote single follicle of hair where there are no other hairs (what is with that anyway), can that mean that although they have some sort of purpose and that they may be less valuable than other parts. it is intriguing to know how many Christians, let alone people, are living side by side with me, and we all can't have the best jobs (being the eye, the taste bud, the cardiac muscle, the neuron so on and so forth). some of us must be the armpit, the back of the knee, the rib bone that complete the "body."

you know what, i actually hope i am a less significant part. why you ask? because my satisfaction is not what my role is, or how meaningful it is to me, i am more concerned about what is greatest for the "body" and more importantly is that me, a eponychium (or cuticle) will not try to be the iris or an alveoli or a nerve because i was not made for that. my desire is that i will be where and who i am designed to be.

btw, no word yet.