An Uncommon Pairing

An Uncommon Pairing

(two souls coming together)

Who could imagine two more uncommon partners?

A Common Golden-Eye juvenile drake (male) duck. Away from his flock early. Here too soon. Too soon to migrate. Looking for his own kind. “Where are they? What do I do? Where do I go?”

A Common Merganser juvenile hen (female) duck. Alone all Spring and Summer. Shunned by her own kind. Looking (hoping) for someone to be with. “Does anyone like me? What will I do?”

She spent the whole Spring and Summer on her own. She tried to befriend her own kind. They shunned her.

She even went so far as to be friends with the cormorants and the gulls. They tolerated her for a time. But it wasn’t the same.

He just arrived one day. Alone. No friends. No family. No leader. And yet, somehow, the two of them immediately took to each other. They seem destined to be together.

Different. And yet the same. Two lost lonely souls. Together.
They will learn about each other. They will learn about their differences. But they will also learn what they have in common.

They are God’s creatures.

What if they have been chosen? Chosen to be together. Chosen to start a new breed or a new species? A “Golden Merganser”. Or a “Mer-Goldeye”? Imagine!!!

Forget about the “Common” label. There is nothing “common” about these two!

What if they lead the way for new hope?

It’s more than who you are. It’s who you can be. It’s more than what you are. It’s what you can be. Be all that you can be!