Oh to be a Free Radical

Free radicals are known in chemistry as atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons on them. Electrons most 'comfortably' exist in pairs, but in these radicals they are alone. Because of this, they are a highly reactive bunch. They're always looking to complete the pair you see.

I'd like to be a free radical, to be highly reactive in this way. Augustine defines freedom as to only be able to do the good; free will put to good use as someone else put it. And to be radical is to be someone who gets to the roots of a thing (radix = roots in latin). So to be a free radical is to be someone who is singular in their pursuit of most essential type of good, God Himself.

If this is what we pursue, we can be sure this is what we will find.