| All I want to know is why do we consider each other as parts making a whole instead of as a whole influencing the parts. I’ve always thought that the whole of a person was more than the sum of his or her parts. To me, man is not reducible into equations; and therefore, any individual’s ability or inability to perform a certain task is irrelevant when evaluating him as an individual. | |
| — KMAB | |
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| On This Day In: | |
| 2013 | Memories & Binging |
| Admiration Due | |
| 2012 | Choices Matter |
| 2011 | Acceptance Is The Key |
| 2010 | Just A Permanent Crease… |
| Bodily Functions | |
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You may be right Kevin, but then it is most likely just another way of seeing and understanding. If I am part of a whole, then the whole provides addition to the sum of my parts, but if the whole is a part of me that means the same thing, as “I” will be either strengthened or weakened by their presence. That’s only two ways of seeing it..Get three of us in the same room and there would be one more way.
As for your last sentence you are absolutely correct because that is the way our Lord has expressed it. Each individual is unique with talents and abilities as given by Him, Such talents are to be respected, never reduced to worthless nor elevated to overly valuable. We are each necessary to the value of each other’s “being” and to the value of His church. This is the path of love. If we belittle each other’s importance or if we elevate it we are not being true to God.
We are truly strange creatures in many ways, don’t you think? At times loving and forgiving and at other times egotistical and haughty.