Simmer Down or Stirred Up?

Out here in BC where the Chehailus meets the Harrison River, November salmon are spawning in numbers like we haven’t seen in awhile.

With a lower water level than usual, tons of fins are visible at the surface. No deep water swimming for these guys. Seagulls have invited themselves to the buffet, sweeping and swirling, alongside the spawning salmon. Like a bubbling coffee pot.

Seagulls can’t really dive deep so they stir up the eggs with their little webbed feet to feast on the hard-battled, newly-laid caviar.

I’m quite astounded how the salmon somehow remain ‘unflappable’ in spite of the flapping, cawing and stirring going on around them. The number of eggs laid supercedes the number of eggs eaten and the future salmon generation survives.

Watching this drama unfold, sometimes I feel like that salmon: battling upriver, trying to stay true to the vision that God programmed into my DNA at birth, staying on purpose and sensitive to what He has given me to do in these last days.

I’m taking this time of year to take a break from swatting seagulls and use that ‘extra hour’ to ignore the distractions that tend to get me all wound up. And just be still and float beneath the surface.

And trust that the ‘eggs laid’ will hatch.

I’m hoping you can do that, too.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23
Let us not grow weary in well-doing for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9

Isn’t this a nice time of year to just take a moment to SIMMER DOWN? And be Still.