Tidings of carpet and joist

We are all familiar with the idea that we are members of the Body of Christ.

In today's first reading (Ephesians 2:19-22) we hear again a different way of understanding the same reality.

You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,
with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.

Through him the whole structure is held together
and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;
in him you also are being built together
into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Each of us - you and I - are pieces being put together into the most magnificent work of construction the universe has ever seen: "a temple sacred in the Lord… a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."

Most of us - including me particularly - are very small and insignificant pieces in that glorious edifice. Some of us may be floor joists; some of us may be carpet nails.

Sometimes we may not be able at all to figure out where or how we could fit into something so wonderful and glorious.

But God is the builder: he knows perfectly that blueprint of incomprehensible majesty and he also knows perfectly, lovingly, each piece of the building - you and me.

May we let ourselves be grasped by the Lord so that through his will and in his grace we may fully and totally fit in: that we may find our destiny, comfort, and eternal joy as pieces fit together by the Lord's own design into the dwelling place of God himself.