Help Needed

     "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others."
Romans 12 :4-5

     It's Lauren's birthday today, and we are so thankful for our multi-talented young lady!  She has so many gifts and talents and often misses out on social events to pursue them.  We love her dedication, her perseverance in the midst of frustrating obstacles. 
     Mike and I recently had a conversation about something I had been thinking about for a while.  The girls have...and have had... so many, and I do mean so so many helpers in their lives.  From Lauren's batting coach, Amanda, and her various great softball and soccer coaches and her writing mentor teachers who have seen something in her and brought it to the next level.  She has had teachers pour into her natural gift for working with children, entrusting her to do sometimes more than what they'd ask the parent volunteers to do.  And, of course, her amazing art coach, Grandpop.  He saw a talent in her sketches and ran with it, teaching her how to be a watercolor artist and technician.
     Taylor has had amazing Braille teachers, her cane teacher, therapists through the ages, her jiu jitsu coach, her classroom teachers, her piano teacher.  I am constantly blown away by the extraordinary people who have invested in our girls.  I am constantly in awe of how much each of these people have gotten out of our girls.
      I realize there is absolutely no way we can BEST ourselves if we stay put and try to do it on our own.  It takes mentors and helpers, people who use their gifts and talents to help others reach their potential.  It takes us looking for and reaching out to others who know better and see more in us than we see in ourselves.  It means we have to do that for others.  I think is what Paul was talking about he talked about the Body of Christ.  When we all work together with our specific gifts and talents, we become a great team.  We get to encourage and build one another up.  We get to help each other reach potentials.  We get to become more united rather than divided realizing our need for and dependence upon each other, starting with Christ the Cornerstone.