A Young Fish Searches for the Sea

Once upon a time there was a young fish that heard other fishes talking about the sea. One day it thought, “I will go and find the sea.”

So it set forth to find he sea. It searched for a long time, but could not find it.

Then it met another fish, and asked, “‘Can you tell me where I may find the sea?’ And the fish said: “No, I have often wished to see it, for I have heard much about it, but I do not know where to look.”’ The young fish met another fish, an old and wise fish, and asked, ‘Can you tell me where I may find the sea?’’ And the old fish said, “Why, this is the sea; you are swimming in the sea; you have been in it all the time.’’ So do we look for God, thinking that He is far from us and difficult to find when “in him we live and move and have our being.”

God is in and near and all around us.