June 4, 2015
By Dr. Lani Wilson
Good Morning, prayer and fasting warriors for AT!
Our joint prayers for our little outpost in East Oakland are being answered. We thank God for more souls who join our Thursday effort of prayer and fasting to lift up the Bride of Christ here and everywhere. However S/He sees fit to move, we will continue to pray and ask for Her presence among and between us.
May we consider another word this week that appears to be an unusual choice (or at least it sort of stumped me): “Fusion.” Yup, there it is. Fusion. My mind first jumped to “nuclear fusion.”
Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars.
It is the reaction in which two atoms of hydrogen combine
together, or fuse, to form an atom of helium. In the process
some of the mass of the hydrogen is converted into energy.
What is Fusion? fusioned.gat.com/what_is_fusion.html
We are familiar with nuclear energy, but did we realize that the process of fusion involves extreme heat?
1550s, "act of melting by heat," from Middle French fusion or directly from Latin fusionem (nominative fusio) "an outpouring,
effusion," noun of action from fusus, past participle of fundere " to pour, melt" (see found (v.2)). Meaning "union or blending of
different things; state of being united or blended" is by 1776; used especially in 19c, of politics, in early 20c. of psychology,
atoms, and jazz (in nuclear physics sense, first recorded 1947; in musical sense, by 1972).
Online Etymology Dictionary etymonline.com
We get the word fusion from the Latin root word, fus, which means “pour,” as in putting something into another container. Another definition is to melt by heating.