Someone once told me: You will be like a duck.
You will dive beneath the surface, exploring the unseen world below.
The water will cover your head, your back—
and yet, in time, your feathers will lift you back to the surface.
That is what you must go through.
There will be moments when the weight of disagreement or the loneliness of being in the minority feels like deep water pressing in from every side. But this immersion is not to drown you—
it is to teach you the strength and buoyancy that has always been within you.
Do not take it personally.
Disagreement is not an attack on your worth. If it were not you in the minority, it would be someone else. The winds of opinion shift constantly, and people often resist what challenges their comfort or beliefs.
I hold onto these words from Galatians 1:10:
Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God.
If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.
Our calling is not to be universally accepted,
but to be faithful.
Not to avoid the deep waters,
but to rise from them, unshaken.
Poetic reflection:
Let the current take you under,
let the stillness teach you.
For even in the depths,
the One who called you holds you—
and the surface is never far.