This little rock easily fitted into the palm of my hand but look at it! The rock itself has many layers of different colour and probably of different elements, then on top, there is layer after layer of different types of lichen and sea plants. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were little creatures living in there too, at least at one time, if not now.
I enjoyed looking at it, turning it this way and that, wondering about the incredible diversity I could see, and how all the elements of this little ecosystem might have interacted over the weeks, months and years gone by.
In some ways this is what our stories must look like, as we interact with others, live with others, and are changed by the events which occur in our lives.
If there is this degree of complexity in one little rock ecosystem, then the complex uniqueness of an individual life must be astonishing.
So why do we treat people as if they are not unique?
Why do we think we can isolate just one aspect of a complex life and influence that exclusively, and predictably?
That doesn’t make sense to me.
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