Stoking the Embers

Stoking the Embers

Learn From a Whale

Jun 30, 2023
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We are Fish Out of Water

A whale has lungs. It’s the mammal that’s “the fish out of water” because while not being a fish it lives in the water. But, having lungs, it needs to breathe. It has to come up to the surface to draw breath or it will die. We are like fish out of water, too. 

We are in the world but not of the world. If we don’t rise above the mu…

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