‘Bubbles!’ is one of the few words my 19-month granddaughter can say with clarity. She absolutely adores bubbles, being thrilled to get a Nemo bubble gun from a trip to the Sea Life aquarium in Loch Lomond on holiday and spending hours making bubbles escape from the fish’s mouth.
Similarly, the whale bubble machine used at the playgroups she attends always captures her rapt attention:
There is something very mesmerising about bubbles and children are not the only ones who enjoy blowing them and bursting them:
Living life inside a bubble, however – feeling protected and safe or simply locked into despair, adversity, sorrow, disappointment or regret – is not reality. We need to understand that the reality of life with Jesus is greater than any bubble. Bubbles are always transitory, ephemeral. Jesus came to give us eternal, abundant life. (John 10:10) We need to progress from bubbles to the joy of this eternal life which starts now.