Small Gifts

I am in a class on Sunday morning studying spiritual gifts. We have taken inventories and discovered according to them what our 3 main gifts are (mine were teaching, knowledge, and hospitality--surprise, surprise!)

What do small gifts have to do with Ephesians 4:11 and I Cor. 12? Why did Paul not mention attendance checkers
those who write encouragement cards
communion cup fillers
funeral food cooks
nursery attendants
baby rockers
technology folks
bathroom cleaners.

I suppose all these could be shoehorned in somewhere in the categories mentioned, but why is it we term them small gifts? I would hate to see a nursery without attendants and rockers. Where would we be without those little cups filled? We might have to go back to one cup--ugh.

Martin Luther King once said, "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"

Thanks to all those intricate parts of the body who perform small services that receive no notice or thanks. I appreciate you!