Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Cheryl Boardman
Monday, October 28, 2024
I saw this fish years ago when I was at the Seattle Aquarium. I think it is a striped surfperch.
This fish was NOT part of the aquarium display, however. It was a wild fish that had somehow made its way up the fish ladder that was meant for salmon. Part of the fish ladder had a window so that people who were looking at the aquarium displays could see the salmon swimming up the fish ladder.
This small fish just looks totally lost and bewildered and like it was wondering how it got there and how it could get out of there and back into its familiar environment in Puget Sound!
Do you ever have those feelings of wondering how you got to where you are and what would be the best way to get out of the situation you find yourself in? I like these verses in Psalm 36:
God’s love is meteoric,
his loyalty astronomic,
His purpose titanic,
his verdicts oceanic.
Yet in his largeness
nothing gets lost;
Not a man, not a mouse,
slips through the cracks.
Psalm 36:5-6 (The Message)