Holding Hands

Happy Valentines’ Day! This afternoon, while looking at the cells through the microscope, a thought came into my mind…As always, they look like they are stretching out to touch the neighboring cells. It is one of the characteristics of mammalian cells in culture, they have to be in at least within touching distance so as to enable them to have cell-to-cell communication. In some pictures, they look as if they are holding hands.

Holding hands is important for survival. Murine melanoma cells, like most cells will not survive without someone to hold hands with. When a cell’s dendrites cannot touch the dendrites of another cell, it will soon round up and float…wither away…We, too..when we have no one to hold hands with, we simply wither away. We call it love..others say it’s because we are social beings.

School children are told to hold hands when crossing the street, that means holding hands also keeps us safe. We hold the hands of those we love in times of joy and in times of not.

We hold hands because we want to be assured of what is tangible as love sometimes is not. Tomorrow, I will hold hands with my beloved ones to celebrate Valentines Day. And hold hands with God as we celebrate His love for us.

~ by myevillareal on February 13, 2008.