Weekly Readings Reflections: Corpus Christi Sunday

Our readings for Corpus Christi Sunday are:

Jewish history is studded with God's efforts to remind His People that they ultimately draw their sustenance from Him and Him alone. Every time that we bless our food we remind ourselves of the same thing.
I suddenly realized the other day that our financial planner stopped talking about how Mary & I would spend our money in retirement and started talking about what legacy we were going to leave our kids. I'm not sure what to conclude from that.
What plans do you have for the next 10 years, or if your young enough, for the next 20?
How much of that planning is rooted in counting on God to provide your needs?
"God helps those who help themselves" is not found verbatim in the Bible. Why is that?

Once humanity settled down to raise crops and tend herds, life got a lot more complex, and things could go very very wrong. All it took was a couple of years of drought, and the entire village would go hungry.
Does it really make sense for humans to settle in desert areas, or regions subject to violent storms, and then beg God to preserve us from drought or hurricane?
Climatologists are predicting dire consequences to the human race if we do not reverse the accelerating carbon footprint that we leave on the environment. Does it make more sense to pray to God for better weather, or pray that we, as a people, will finally take better care of our planet?
Are we willing to pay the price for living sustainably?

Paul likens us to organs in the Body. Personally, I'd rather be a guitar. But that aside, the purpose of the various parts of the body is not just to sustain each other. The Body has a higher purpose, an over arching calling that we each contribute to.
Does your church have a mission statement?
Does anyone refer to that statement regularly?
How do the various ministries in the church support that mission?
How often do you as a Body review that mission to keep it fresh?

In times past, the Church had to guard against folks taking the consecrated host and trying to use it as some sort of talisman, manipulating God's presence for their purposes. Such misuse of the Presence is essentially a desecration.
If we not only have the Presence within us, but we are the Presence is it possible for us to desecrate ourselves?
If I am called by God to be a plumber, but I insist on living my life as a carpenter, is that a desecration of the Presence within me?
How then can we show honor to that Presence within us?

Shalom!

Weekly Readings Reflections