Whispers
What whispers do you hear? Who is whispering in your ear? Do you hear your Mother telling you you'll never amount to much? Or is she telling you you are the most beautiful princess in all the world? Do you hear your teacher say "You must try harder. You can do better?' You had done your best and you knew you could not do better, but it is never enough. No matter how hard you work or how late you stay up to get it perfect. All that means is that the next day you walk around in a daze not taking anything in and getting more and more behind.

Do you hear the whispers of girls you thought were your friends as they stand together and look furtively in your direction? What could they be saying about you? What had you done or said this time to make them snigger and then pretend to suddenly see you and greet you with such put on smiles?

Why does no one understand? Why does no one care? Why is everyone so cruel? Am I really that bad, that incompetant, that terrible, that unlovable?

Then one day I was introduced to Someone I knew about but had never met before. His name is Jesus and suddenly I found that here was Someone who loved me. He loved me so much that He died in my place. What's more He understood me. He cared about every detail of my life. He bled and died and rose again to forgive me for every sin I ever committed and for every sin I will ever commit. I did not have to be perfect for Him to love me. I realised that He alone is perfect and all I had to do was believe that He is the Son of God and that He died in my place.

Now I no longer had to look for acceptance and love from other people who were also not perfect. I did not have to care what they thought or try to please them all the time. The only Person that mattered was Jesus my Friend, my Saviour, and my God. What freedom this has brought in my life. I know my Mother and my teachers and all the other significant people in my life were only trying to make me into a better person. But only The Holy Spirit alive and working His Grace and Mercy in my life is able to change me from the inside out to be the person that He created me to be.

We all know the cliche about the fact that we are all on a journey. It's a cliche because it is so true. Since I surrended my life to Jesus my journey has not always been free of problems but at least the whisper I now hear is Him saying, "I love you. Take My hand. I will help you through this circumstance which I have set before you. Trust Me."