Aspen Trees

In the Monday morning chapel service this week, we had a speaker come in from outside the school to talk to us. Our speaker was Jessica Nipp Hacker, the coordinator for the ELCA Malaria Campaign and a Wartburg graduate herself. Naturally, I was interested, because I am quite passionate about the malaria initiative here on my college campus! I was however, not expecting for myself to be moved about my own life and the people that are around me every single day. "Jess" as everyone on campus called her, described the lifestyle of aspen trees, and related it to the life of Christians. Well, the life that Christians should lead rather. A grove of quaking aspen trees in Utah makes up the largest organism on the planet, as each and every tree is interconnected by the roots underground. Isn't this just incredible? What if Christians were able to live the same way? Each an individual, yet all intertwined and connected at the roots, at the heart. Just something to think about.. :)