Like fish (Carp, to be exact)
A few weeks ago, I was visiting a place where there were multiple ponds with various sizes of carp swimming around. I sat watching them swim around in circles in the water. They looked so happy, so content. It seemed like such a simple life to spend most of their day just swimming around in a ~6x6 foot pond, but I couldn’t deny that they hardly looked bored.
Some fish picked at some grass at the bottom, another looked almost like he/she was twirling in a tight circle. Many of them seemed to follow the large group of carp swimming in a (seemingly repetitive) circle around the parameter of the pond. But they were happy. (Or maybe that’s just me!)
I sat thinking about how content they looked just being fish, just swimming through the water like that. It makes me think about how, when we’re doing what Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, created us to do, that is when we’re most content. Even doing something that might be “boring” to another person has meaning when it’s what we’re created to do. In that sense, we should be like those fish.