"What do you believe the difference is between a sea and an ocean?" The World Atlas states, "An ocean is a vast and an continuous frame of salty water that shelters almost 70 percent [more than one-third] of the earth's surface, while a sea is a body of salt water smaller than an ocean."
You can actually see this when you look at the map above. Can you find the Mediterranean Sea? It's TINY compared to the oceans surrounding the rest of the world. It's a bit humbling think that the Mediterranean was the ancients' whole world at one point, and it doesn't even take up the size of my thumb in the map I chose above. They simply couldn't see the big - colossal - picture. It makes me think we need to keep the big picture in mind more often. When life gets hard, sucky, and our prospective grows dim, we almost need to zoom-out and stand-back to admire God's vast creations surrounding us, like the rest of the world did the Mediterranean. It's not until we can see the big map of life that we realize: all those times we felt the world was hinging on a thumb-sized thing, it was simply part of something greater. Everything falls into place when you see the big picture.
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lily
10/8/2019 01:27:05 pm
I like what you said about the big picture, and how we sometimes just need to stand back and look.
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Mary Randall
10/26/2019 04:07:31 pm
you are super smart! you put that in a super cool way!!
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