The Legend of the Duck

Many have asked about our beloved mascot…so we felt it deserved a full explanation.
Well, here it is:

Rubber ducks are helpless. Most rubber ducks aren’t even designed to float upright.  The very thing you might expect a rubber duck to do at a minimum, it is quite incapable of. I’m not sure why that is, but I’ve found it to be generally true. So rubber ducks not only can’t help others—they can’t even help themselves. In fact, left to itself, a rubber duck will drown itself. It’s just the way it is.

So why would LifeSupport choose a rubber duck as its “mascot”?!

Well, it’s a daily, constant reminder of how dependent we are on God to sustain us, let alone to work through us. Though He gifts us, the reality is apart from Him, we are incapable of accomplishing anything of significant, lasting, eternal value. Nothing. Nada.

But here’s the hook: When God chooses a vessel to carry out His work, it can accomplish anything. The pathetic, helpless rubber duck becomes like the Navy. We move from weakness to strength. But not ours…it’s never ours.

As we simply submit to our great God, He chooses to bless us by allowing us to use the gifts He gave us, to accomplish His purposes—which He alone can accomplish. He uses us, and usually requires us (though He need not) to till the soil, plant…but He alone is the one who produces the fruit.

We are so thankful for God’s clear calling to us to serve Him by helping your center thrive. We know why we’re here, and that we are a vessel He can use (in our gifting, weakness and dependence) to bring glory to His great name!