A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD

sermon by Louie Giglio...and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....but I fear not

being able to convey it as well as I want. I will share anyway.

He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is...how He spoke the universe into

being...how He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire...etc. etc. Then

He went on to speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO knitted our human

bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a

medical standpoint, you know.) .....and I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during

medical school as I learned more and more about God's handiwork. I remember so many times                                          

thinking....'How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this???' 

Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to

hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

And then I lost my breath.  And it wasn't because I was running my treadmill, either!!!

It was because he started talking about laminin.  I knew about laminin. Here is how wikipedia

describes them :'Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding

of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue.' You see....laminins are what hold us together.

...LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next

cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already. But what I didn't know is what

laminin LOOKED LIKE.

But now I do.  And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....

Here is what the structure of laminin looks like...AND THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' of it....if you

look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see...

Now , try to tell me that our God is not the coolest!!!
Amazing.
The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross.