Have you found Nemo?

Tonight I watched one of my favorite movies that I haven't watched in a while with some good friends. Finding Nemo. The adventures of Merlin and Dori trying to find Nemo who's lost in the vast ocean. I've decided too that clown fish are cool and that I want one... I'm just not quite sure about this saltwater aquarium thing.

If you've never seen this movie (which means that you really need to go see it... like right now), it's a story about a single dad clown fish (Merlin) and his son (Nemo). Nemo gets taken by this dentist from Sydney who is scuba diving along the reef and takes Nemo back to his fish tank. Well, Merlin sets out on an adventure to find his son when he runs across Dori (another reef fish with short term memory loss... kinda like Alzheimers). During their adventure they encounter many, many other interesting creatures, from sharks to tuna to rad turtles to jellyfish to pelicans to seagulls (Mine! mine! mine! mine!). They search tirelessly. They become discouraged so many times. They're scared to go beyond the known and into the unknown.

How far would you go? To what depths of the unknown would you travel? For an intimate romance with God, how far would you swim? Would you dart through a sea of jellyfish? Would you put up with someone that you had to explain to every 5 minutes what you're doing and who you're looking for? Are you doing all of this now? Have you found Nemo?

This is one of dozens of thoughts I had while watching this movie. It still amazes me how many places you can find God in such ordinary experiences. But I get back to what I was asking... if you were Merlin, how hard would you seek? Would you seek until you found? Our goal is to find more than just Nemo... how much do we desire and long to find it? How far will we go? Are you swimming yet? Dive in... the adventure awaits.