Synergy|

noun, plural syn-er-gies 1. the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc; synergism

As the snow melts, the mornings warm with the sun, so warm it heats the earth which absorbs and retains its energy for hours. The hope of spring is embraced openly without expectation, knowing the history of these coordinates. There shall be snow again soon, or rain, or some other form of weather which offers excuses for the foolishly unsatisfied complainers. Yet spring is on the horizon, followed by summer in all its bountiful pleasures.

Currently as my heart prepares with excitement, to exit this beautifully bittersweet winter season, my Beloved calls for a shift in my perspective once more. In a music filled room where 2000 saints praise the Creator of the universe, He whispers ever intimately amongst the stir. Within the melody, the words which He once wielded as comfort in a time of despair upon the island. Each moment, every emotion, all the lessons of growth and transformation flooding back with the newness of a spring shower. Sinking Deep, He said to me, “Vanessa, do not be so eager to leave this winter season with haste, but rather leave it with thanksgiving and gratefulness of the woman I made anew in you.”

All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭15‬ NIV|

"Your love is crashing over me, it’s surging like a raging sea, immerse me in the wonder of Your love. A downpour of unending grace, consuming all our wreck less ways, my sin submerged, Your love has saved my soul. Your love is like a storm." Hillsong Young & Free - Gracious Tempest

She stands at the ocean’s edge, staring into the face of a distant storm as it advances. The hairs upon her nape stand on end as chills surge throughout her body, simultaneously responding to the electricity in the air. The smell of weather turning, the ferocity of the ocean, yet an unexplainable peace which transcends understanding, washing over like warm summer showers. Overwhelmed by the purest, most humbling synergy as creation is enveloped by its Creator. Worlds collide as Heaven opens wide the floodgates of glory upon the earth. Waves crash fiercely as the tide invades, winds increase relentlessly as it visciously sweeps sand across her skin like sandpaper. Dark hellish clouds roll in, bringing with them flashes of lightning, bursts of thunder and torrents of rain. The air, the earth and the waters that once were in one moment, will come to pass and be made new.

"You won’t relent until You have it all, my heart is Yours. I’ll set You as a seal upon my heart, as a seal upon my arm. For there is Love that is as strong as death, jealousy demanding as the grave. And many waters cannot quench this Love. Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me, until You and I are one. I don’t wanna about you like you’re not in the room, wanna look right at you, wanna sing right to you.” Jesusculture - You won’t relent

That unquenchable desire to be enveloped by the Gracious Tempest, our Sovereign Creator of unconditional Love. Not only the synergy between us created things, allowing for a bond created than our individualism. Even more so is the synergy between man and his Maker. The origin of love which provides us the opportunity to understand how to love one another, unconditionally.

"The highest does not stand without the lowest. A plant must have roots below as well as sunlight above and roots must be grubby. Much of the grubbiness is clean dirt if only you will leave it in the garden and not keep on sprinkling it over the library table. The human loves can be glorious images of Divine Love. No less than that: but also no more - " C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves

"Thus one Need-love, the greatest of all, either coincides with or at least makes a main ingredient in man’s highest, healthiest and most spiritual condition. A very strange corollary follows. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?" C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves

As the crashing of one pounding wave after another upon the shore of my pride; so is the graciously relentless Love of my Beloved. His desire for me so pure, so consuming it overwhelms any darkness as the morning sun upon the horizon.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬ NIV|

I am left with no other logical option than surrender, in it’s most releasing of forms. His gentle voice, constant and warm, beckoning for my surrender, requesting to release my heart into the hands of my Father, my Healer and my Refuge amongst the storm. His steadfast pursuit of my heart draws the roots of my foundation deeper and reveals the clarity of my identity through His Son. Now unshakeable against the storm, not by my own strengths rather His strength made perfect within my weakness.

If we are to, together, change the trajectory of our future, to create a more suitable, more sustainable world for the common good, we must remember the strength in unity. Not the treacherous “us vs them”, the poison of comparison and blame, rather the celebration of differences. The unconditional love without expectation of return. We can accomplish any possibility. We were not created to be lone-wolves, rouge waves, instead within our individualism, embracing those who complement our weaknesses with their strengths and visa-versa.