SALT

Salt is an interesting material. Hard, heavy, translucent, usually granualer, though sometimes you can find it in large blocks. One amazing thing about salt is that it dissolves in water! Salt also kills. It kills bacteria, keeps food from rotting, and in larger quantities it can kill lakes, seas, vegetation, animals and humans. Yet we consume it with food, water and cannot survive without it.

Can salt in itself loose it saltiness? Jesus used salt as an example of what we should be, salt of the world, keeping it from rotting as many Bible scholars would conclude. We can also argue that our 'salt' should be spread in moderation, not in excess which may even kill another (we all know rubbing salt into a wound can be quite painful). But what about the dissolving qualities of salt? Is salt really useful as a solid when it does not dissolve?

Interesting thought, isn't it? Once salt dissolves, it is gone (at least gone from it's solid state)! We become a fluid, in one with what (or whom) we have salted. It can no longer be identified as salt in itself, although it can still be sensed and tasted. Is this another quality Jesus alluded to? To loose ourselves, the from we know. To to allow the salt to melt in, not to rub in our undissolved salt as many do...

As i was pondering this, i looked up some acronyms for salt. Some of the more intersting ones i found:

- same as last time
- single and loving it
- stand a little taller
- size, activity, location, time (military term)
- situation awareness logic tool
- serving and learning together
- salt and light together
- save a life today

Looking at these acronyms makes me ponder on how my 'salt' has effected my surroundings. Is it always the 'same as last time' or do i really love life, stand taller, aware of the time and place where i am, serving and learning with others, and most important has my 'salt' saved a life today?