Discovering that theology is true!

I have been learning a lot about the Body of Christ over the last few weeks. We have had some conflicts and issues going on recently that I have found hard to handle. But, my delight has been to find that others have not had the same difficulties - and more than that, they have been willing and able to do that which I have found myself unable to do.
It was hard to accept at first. That sense of needing to be able to do everything, that somehow it is inappropriate to depend on others, that other people are busy and shouldn't be asked to do more - even that my level of distress was daft, since other people were not so upset...all of that rather got in the way. But we are nothing if not a determined congregation, and people have just taken over and done what needs to be done.
And gradually, painfully, I have come to realise that this is part of what the Body of Christ means - that no one of us is able, or needs to be able, to do it all. And that different gifts is precisely what it says - there are things I can do that others can't and things others can do that I can't, and that is as it should be. To accept that may be a blow to the pride that holds on to a sense of omnicompetence and indispensability. But it is also a great relief, and a source of profound joy.
So, here, I want to say thank you to those with whom I share being this church - and to thank God for the gift of each other.