Have you ever entered a worship assembly to praise and worship our Father and felt alone? Have you ever felt coldness, rather than fire; division, rather than unity? Have you ever felt as if we were heads, arms, torsos and legs, rather than a body? I have.

 The picture this might present to Jesus, there in our midst, might be one of majestic icebergs, each one standing valiantly alone, yet each one floating in the same water. Almost touching, each shining brightly, pointing upward, yet each, alone. Cool, aloof, proud. Just existing in the cold together.

 Another picture offered to God could be one in which the heat of His warm, forgiving love and the fire of the indwelling Spirit received at our baptisms thaws each berg. Melting, blending, flow-ing as one powerful stream, we offer an outpouring of love and adoration, praise and petition. Each one is surrounded by the spreading warmth until no one stands alone.

 Pray now, as He prayed, believing in God's power to create this picture, "May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (John 17;23).