Growing up in Minnesota, we were a meat and potatoes kind of people, so eating fish was not something I did, unless it came out of the freezer section in a box with the name Vandi Kamps on it.

When I moved to Seattle to attend bible school, I was in the ocean air, had a great view of the mountains and was only a few hours from the beach where the Pacific Ocean came crashing on the shoreline.

While in Seattle, I was introduced to fish. My first experience was at Pike Place market when we went to the flying fish market. Here the people order a fish of their choosing, which came right out of Puget Sound and once the order is placed, the men say some words and then a fish goes flying through the air to be packaged for the customer.

My next experience was when I was invited to eat salmon for the first time. It was fresh, no fish taste at all. Then I tried Mahi Mahi raw tuna, and squid, calamari and even baby octopus. I was now a fresh fish eater and it was delicious. But when you live in the Midwest, it is not usually fresh fish you get, so you revert back to meat and potatoes.

Living in Seattle taught me about salmon, so this morning when the Lord said to me, “Let’s talk salmon” it was not odd, but rather was very insightful. Salmon are anadromous. They are born in freshwater, migrate to saltwater and then return to spawn in freshwater. Few fish do this at the scale or precision of a salmon.

Salmon swim upriver leaping waterfalls, fighting currents and when they near spawning change dramatically. Their greatest threat is a dam, that hinders their movement upstream.

I sense there is a company of salmon on earth that have been struggling with dams hindering their movement, but God says, Ezekiel 47’s river has no dams, keeping swimming for you will give birth at the headwaters of the river of God. Fellow salmon, keep swimming. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org