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Your body contains somewhere between 35 and 70 trillion cells. That's trillion with a "T." 35 thousand billion (or seventy-thousand billion—depending on whom you ask). Have you ever wondered how all those cells stick together? Neither have I. but they do. If they didn't, we'd be a puddle of Jello—no organs, no skin, muscles, stomach, brain—just a sludge of individual cells. Not a pretty sight and not a very interesting pool of goo to study. I doubt humanity would have accomplished much if things were this way.

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Fortunately, or, rather, blessedly, they are not.

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And what makes the difference? It's a tiny protein called Lamanin. Among its many uses within the body, one type of Lamanin has receptors which bind to other receptors on the cell membrane. It can bind to two cells, thus holding them together.

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Now all this is interesting, but I hear you ask, "What's the point?"

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These Lamanin proteins, the ones which bind cells together, are cross-shaped.

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Kind of reminds me of Colossians 1:15-17.

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The Son is the image of the invisible God,

the firstborn over all creation.

For in him all things were created:

things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;

all things have been created through him and for him.

He is before all things,

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and in him all things hold together.

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It is the cross which divides history and binds the two epochs to one another. It is the cross which divides all humanity into believer and unbeliever while it also inextricably welds us all into one. Without the cross, humanity would be one incoherent blob. We would disintegrate into ever smaller units, living only for ourselves, infinitely selfish.

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To the glory of the Divine Lamanin!

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5/31/24

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