Wals Agape 12y
Emmanuelle Riker
Mountain Lake Christian (MLC) Commencement speaker Bryan Bargen shared with the seven members of the graduating Class of 2015 the steps needed to reach the ability to live lives of selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love; agape love, or love at its ultimate. A love that describes the kind of love Jesus has for his Father and his followers; one that never fails and is laid out in 1 Corinthians:13.
Then there's the bubble net, a neat trick exhibited by humpback whales. A group of humpbacks locates a school of fish. Attacking them is likely to disperse them, so instead they swim beneath the fish in ever-shrinking circles, blowing air bubbles as they go. The densely packed bubbles rise in similarly shrinking circles, effectively trapping the fish as the 'net' gets tighter, and then at the right moment, the whales swim up the net, mouths agape, and swallow the fish in great clusters. The whales all have different roles: some are bubble-blowers, others dive deep to ensure the fish are driven upwards, and some even make calls to help herd the prey. Teamwork, passed on from generation to generation.