Holding It All Together!

How's Easter going for you?

This year, I am unusually aware of the approach of Holy Week.

Now you know I am a Christmas girl at heart.

While Easter is where "the rubber hits the road" for our faith,

Christmas just appeals to the child, and the homebody in me.

But this year is special, there is a holy reverance

growing in my heart as Holy Week approaches.

Maybe it's just part of getting closer to an empty nest, here at the Ponderosa.

Now I don't have Easter eggs to dye, and all the other sorts of things that accompany that.

If you do, you are probably feeling like I often did;

harried, rushed and in much danger of losing the whole point of Easter.

Don't be discouraged. He is a good God and will meet you right where you're at today.

He wants you to know that though you may feel like you're falling to pieces,

You Won't !

He's holding you and holding me together, from the inside out!

He's holding all the presidential candidates all together! He's holding together your granchildren, your nieces and nephews. He's holding your neighbors, your bosses, your co-workers together!

"Explain yourself, Maria," you say.

About a month ago, my church showed this wonderful DVD,

called "How Great is Our God".

WONDERFUL!

It was all truly inspiring and wonderful.

But the punch line for me was this:

There is this little protein that works something like a glue

that holds us all together on the inside of our bodies. The way the integral parts string together forms a cross on the inside of the protein!

Here's part of what Wikipedia had to say "They are a family of glycoproteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue. Laminins are secreted and incorporated into cell-associated extracellular matrices. They are shaped like a cross."

How cool is THAT? He's an awesome God truly!

And apparently He leaves His trademark on His work!

He must think we're something special to do that!

If He sees to such intricate details as this, need we think He is not aware that we need brakes? Or to pay our property taxes? Or for the lab work to be better numbers this time? Or maybe for the trip to rehab to be successful this time, and the new diet to become a permanent life style change?

The cross on the INSIDE of us. Holding us together as GLUE!

"For it was in Him that all things were created,

in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen,

whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities;

all things were created and exist through Him

[by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.
And He Himself existed before all things,

and in Him all things consist

(cohere, are held together)."

Colossians 1:16-17