Every Day is Laundry Day

Every Day is Laundry Day

Who is the Head
Interesting to even consider. Jesus is the head, right? Yeah... I mean that's what I always thought (in this comparison of the Church to the Body) and what I currently thought. But in between, I felt like the eyes, ears, mouth were the Saints. And since they are a part of the head, then I thought that part of the comparison didn't hold water. But now I believe that the "head" in the comparison is the brain, brainstem, cerebellum and cerebrum. By that I mean the part of the head that processes information and tells the rest of the body what to do. THAT MAKES SENSE. We then send sensory information (what we feel, see, hear, taste, smell, pain, temperature, what position we are in, etc.) to the brain/Jesus and then Jesus tells us what to do (motor or muscle movement).
I like to ponder these things. It's awesome to think that the verse "though we are many..." stretches so deep that all the anatomy/physiology of the human body can correlate to the Church Body.
Think of this too, the brain communicates electrically and chemically. Electrically via nerve impulses. Some of the motor responses we have are built into us and require no communication to the brain (reflexes, things like recoiling your hand back from putting it on something hot, or balancing or blocking something that is coming at you). None of these things requires and OK from the brain. It's survival stuff. The body is automatic when it comes to survival. It doesn't need the check with the cognititive section of the brain to see what it's response to a probably damaging stimuli should be. It protects itself. Simple.

Now, how does that relate to the church? I don't know. Let's ponder it together. There seems to be a difference with regard to the body and the Church. The body is geared at survival. Staying alive. It will sacrifice all it's other functions (bowel movements, digestion, pancreas, kidney function, etc) to stay alive. In fact, there are actually 2 modes the body can run in. Sympathetic (fright, fight or flight) and parasympathetic (daily living, maintenance, etc). The more sympathetic the body goes, the less parasympathetic it will be. For example, you've heard the "I was so scared, I defecated in my pants" or you've heard some other version of that saying. That's a physiologic function. There are a lot of speculations about the "why" the body does that. It might be that it just shuts that system down and when that system shuts down, it causes an emptying. Or it might even be more purposeful like if i release all this stuff in me, i will be able to run faster to get away from this impending danger. Is the Church in danger? That could also be open for debate. There are enemies (or The Enemy) that seek to kill, rob and destry the Church and anything that sets itself up as "of God". However, I don't think we have reflexes designed to keep us alive.

But do we have autonomic reflexes (which avoid the brain) in the Church? I think we should. Howeover, it should be in functioning in His love and Unity that we should be autonomic.

I want to finish this later. Thanks for letting me ramble. I enjoy taking all these revelations that God has given me in bits and pieces, and putting them in writing.

posted by laundryboy @ 2:02 PM