A Brand New Context

My Mother inspired me to believe in Jesus. Right from my earliest childhood, she read stories to me from The Bible.

My faith is strong.

The life of Jesus truly is the greatest story ever told. I can remember seeing the film which featured Max Von Sydow. I was really taken with the story of Jesus, his life, his mission and his death.

After seeing Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ, I learnt something; the brutal scourging didn’t kill him, carry that heavy cross up the hill didn’t kill from exhaustion, being nailed to the cross didn’t end his life.

Jesus said, “it is finished”

Read that again.

It implies, he had finished his work.

Jesus left on his terms.

This left a deep impression on me.

As I come to terms with my mother’s transition, I am reminded that mum did her duty in Jesus’s name. I must now continue to do my duty.

Mum is not here any more; it’s ok.

Her spirit dwells within me.

I feel her spirit.

She watches over me.

I am on my own now.

I have Jesus and mum for company.

“In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love”.

Eckhart Tolle