{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Small Wonders","title":"A Drop in the Ocean","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1143,"description":"Many of us see the ocean as an immense blue desert; something to be crossed to see loved ones.\nIt covers nearly 140 million square miles of our planet and can seem to many like an unfathomable, stormy tempest. A single drop seems completely insignificant.\nPerhaps it's for that reason - it's vastness - that we also cast our rubbish into the ocean.\nBut seeing it only in terms of its size, as a place of stormy chaos, or just a dumping ground, is reductive. It dismisses the ocean rather than engages with it.\nThings are changing. As one mile of the ocean is cleaned at a time - one drop, if you will - marine life explodes back into being.\nWhat was previously lost, is once again found.\nWhat if this fearful, stormy sea is actually something to be nurtured, not just traversed? Seen as a reminder of all that is sacred about life, where even one simple drop can be so life-giving?\nThe scriptures point to the ocean as the ultimate display of God's power, creativity - and love.\nMaybe it's time we re-imagined the Ocean, and allowed ourselves to see in it the reflection of the Creator.\n\"How many are your works, Lord!In wisdom you made them all;\nthe earth is full of your creatures.There is the sea, vast and spacious,teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small\nThere the ships go to and fro,and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.\"\nPsalm 104: 24-26 ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/dmK8bnSXogSdA0JzLpcbWT0T8m3Qf0pVnc905HRW-Cg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5MjQ0LzE2NDc5/OTAzNDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}