TEAM

In my last blog I said I want 'team'. That word is a powerful one for me and has, for and in me, a pretty clear definition. What I do NOT mean is team like a baseball or football team: people who do things, even the same kind of things, together for a purpose or cause etc. Team to me is embodied in a molecule: like oxygen and hydrogen combine to become water. So basic, so everywhere in our lives we take it for granted. But oxygen and hydrogen are gasses. Oxygen is extremely flammable...there are specific properties and specific dangers. But when the molecule is formed and there is water, the new thing formed by the two different elements is not really like either element. It is for me "magically" new in every way. Another example is chlorine and sodium becoming salt -- so different, so unexpected! The elements bond with such strength it takes power to break the bond. In water electrolysis is necessary, and if "left to themselves" hydrogen and oxygen will reform into water -- they 'want' to be team. I want to be team. Right now I am feeling the "shock" of electrolysis, as it were. This is me, grappling with it all. The mirror of 1 Corinthians 13 (1 Cor 13:9, 12)

For we know in part and we prophesy {hear from God to gain His perspective} in part,
NIV

1 Cor 13:12
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;
NIV

that mirror has become a fun house mirror; my eyes hurt, I cannot find focus. So...I am taking my glasses off till He gives me light and fixes the mirror. I am waiting.

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