Jesus Will Help Me Find My Life
"Out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants He has perfected praise."
- Matthew 21:16
Have you ever heard a little kid "sing" a song they make up on the spot, whatever comes to mind? You never know what exactly will come out next. And you can never quite remember it afterwards, and without a precise tune you cannot repeat it, so anyone who wasn't there can't fully understand what they did. If you're lucky, you have a video camera ready.
Today I was working on a blog post, with my little sister jabbering away to Amy in the background. I was amused by their conversation, but I wasn't really listening. Kristen started to sing in that kid style, with randomness in word and tune. She sang about how she loves everything, but not animals that are mean and hurt you. Still, I paid scant attention until when she started a "new song," something caught my ear.
"Jesus will help me find my life out because He is powerful," she babbled.
Did she really say that? I wondered. That's pretty profound for a five-year-old, and I'm pretty sure nobody told her something like that.
Hmm...this might be interesting. I started typing out what she said. I did not catch it all, but this was the gist.
Jesus will help me find my life out because He is powerful
What happened to my life, what happened to my life, what happened to my life
(This sounded like a real song the way it repeated.)
Jesus gonna help me find where on earth is my life
Guys, I think you will laugh and I know you will and it's not funny
(She knows people laugh at her and sometimes tells us not to.)
And I don't have a life because I lost it when I was singing because someone took it
I'm going to go ask my friends and I'm going to go around and ask everybody until I find it
Where is my life?
I have it now
Jesus gave it back to me
I am happy about my life
(Seriously? Did she really just say that?)
Jesus gave it back to me and I am happy
I found my life and those things are funny but it's not funny I lost my life
I losed my life again and it's not funny
(It amuses me how she says losed rather than lost.)
I'm gonna ask everybody again
Then I can get my life back with Jesus
And this is the end and fingernail polish and spray and things
And I found my life back again.
(I love the random stuff she threw in at the end!)
"And that's the end," she sings. She ends by asking Amy, "Are you happy what I found my life again?"
One thing about little kids: they mix the mundane and the sacred all together. She went on to sing about some other random thing and then to pretend to doctor Amy.
It's a lesson we might take, as we older people are often timid to speak of anything spiritual if we don't have a good way of bringing it up, if it's not a natural part of conversation.
"I lost my life and Jesus gave it back to me," she sang.
Yep. Out of the mouth of that child, the answer to everything. "Jesus gave it back to me and I am happy."
At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. - Matthew 11:25