Driving north on Highway 1, also known as Pacific Coast Highway, my friend Mandy asked what I was most enjoying along the drive. Of course, the Pacific Ocean is beautiful, but I was also really enjoying all the flowers in bloom. She responded that she had never paid attention to the flowers, but looked more in the shops along the road. “It’s funny how we all see different things when we’re looking in the same place.” She continued, “Before having my oldest daughter, I would’ve never thought to look for mermaids, but that’s what she told her younger sister to look for during a recent trip we made along this same highway.”
Looking for mermaids. We all see things differently.
I encourage you to look for mermaids today, to see something through someone else’s eyes and appreciate the value of their perspective—one of the many blessings of small groups.
There is greater value as part of a whole than as an individual.
Or as Aristotle put it, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
But I think the best is how Solomon expressed this wisdom, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.
9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
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