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A wave is bobbing along the ocean, having a grand old time.  He’s enjoying the wind and the fresh air – until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore.

‘This is terrible’ the wave says.  ‘Look what’s going to happen to me!’

Then along comes another wave.  It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, ‘Why do you look so sad?’

The first wave says, ‘You don’t understand!  We’re all going to crash!  All of us waves are going to be nothing!  Isn’t it terrible?’

The second wave says, ‘No, you don’t understand.  You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.’

This is a passage that I keep coming back to recently.  It is from a book that I borrowed from Lewis called ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom.

It’s a simple passage, but it seems to speak on a number of levels.  My overriding impression is the message that we are part of something much bigger than we are, individually or as a church.  There is great comfort in that knowledge, but like so many things, perhaps we forget that in the busy-ness of life.

Paul

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