The Secret is in the Source

  Don't we all have times when life seems hard to live? I visited a friend of mine, who has a little baby boy of 7 weeks. He is as cute as can be. As she was nursing him and changing his diaper he cried and made little uncomfortable sounds. She looked lovingly at him and said in a playful, sympathetic tone "Oh but it is hard to be little isn't it?" Her playful, tender words struck me - even that little baby, in its 28days of existence finds life hard to some extent... He doesn’t know how to communicate with words, he feels irritable and frankly, oh, it is HARD.

I watched attentively at the way she wrapped him in a fluffy butterfly printed “blankie”. He gave a few moans, but, within moments he was quiet and slept safely in his beautiful mommy's arms...

I had a few trying weeks since the murder of one of my dear friends. Death is one of the most abstract concepts to me. It is impossible to think that an existing being, can just literally vanish into thin air...

But Death also means freedom and total surrender; it is giving over, and embracing a new realm. As I was thinking about my difficult past experiences, I realised that I had to find a Source. Someone who could also wrap me - this broken torn vessel - in a fluffy blanket, and make me feel safe.

My found Source was Jesus Christ. God incarnate who came down to earth and wrapped all of us in a fluffy blanket telling us that "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK!"

But sometimes I don't even feel that The Source is near me.

When I am lamenting like that 7 week old baby, I don't realise that my Father is there, experiencing every emotion I have WITH ME. We struggle and resist and strive and try effortlessly and want to figure out our hard life all by ourselves. We need to realise that, irrespective of intellectual and physical maturity, we are still fragile, brittle, helpless beings, and it is only our Source that can give us comfort in this earthly life.

What an encouraging thought! Although we want to do things our way, our Source is constantly watching over us. But we need to surrender fully; die to our own willpower in order to experience His rich, vast, never-ending love, overflowing blessing and abundant grace.


Praise be to God! Jesus came to set the captives free, He came to give us life and life in abundance; He came to give us peace that surpasses all understanding.

If you are experiencing turmoil, be it physically or emotionally, remember to surrender and turn to your Source, who is standing there with open arms to wrap you in a beautiful butterfly printed, soft fluffy blankie.

My you find The Source that fills your whole being will love, power and a sound mind.

Shalom