Control

In the blink of an eye I found myself upside down, then again and again. While the car was airborne I remember seeing my camera floating in midair in the cabin. 

My passenger on the back seat pulled it to her chest and secured it. The car landed on the side of the road. The passenger next to me was conscious, I looked back at the camera-rescuer . She looked like she got knocked out. Eyes closed, hands still gripped around camera. I shouted her name. She “woke up”. We all crawled out of the car on our own power. Those moments lasted seconds but felt like a hundred lifetimes whenever I remember it

Losing control of a vehicle is an awful situation. Losing control of your life…worse. Do you remember the last time you lost control? A car, a situation on the job, your temper? Last month, last week, yesterday? By the time we get to adulthood, we ensure that we are almost always in control. Because once we lose control we are at the mercy of a million factors that are not always in our favour. The sad truth is, sometimes in our quest of controlling every single thing, we can lose control over…ourselves. 

In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was about to relinquish control of not just his human life but his eternal life. This was it. He could not see beyond what death had to offer. The future was closed to Him. Blinded by His human eyes, Jesus of Nazareth had to trust His Heavenly Father. Trusting God with the reins of our life is not a natural act. It is a supernatural endeavor which can only be achieved through the exchange of our will for His. His becomes the calm in our chaos. Somethings we may lose out in this life but God will reach out and secure that which is most important for eternity. You.

— YorkAli Walters