Security blanket

If you have been at our house for any length of time, you've seen the security blanket. Every child of mine gets 2-3 blankets that I make (I make more than one for washing purposes), and although I origionally make them for swaddling, they become SUPER attached to them. Ella used to suck hers : we cut it up til there was nothing left. Zoe can tell which blanket is hers by smell (yah, that's right). Ada has a mini one that she has to keep in her purse and I've been known to find her head inside her purse.
This got me thinking of my security blankets. I thought of this before the tsunami, but how much more relevant it is now. I watched a video of the tsunami and it was so interesting. these people were standing on land about 15 feet above a dock. solid ground. they saw a wave coming. granted the wave was normal height (about 3/4 feet), but as it went past them, it wiped out EVERY single boat in the harbor, big and small. They had such security where they were standing that they were even getting closer, knowing that if they got caught, they'd be gone. It even reminded me of the tsunami last year in indonesia where people were so excited to see the tide go out 200 feet , rather than freaked out, that they followed it...
Now these people had warning (most of them), but every day without warning we have little security for tomorrow. This week my friend Christian died, tragic accident that left his spine and brain irreparable. Who would guess that it would happen? I was so secure in thinking I would see him at Easter.
What do you put your security in... youth, goodness (I'm a good person; I deserve to be well for a long life, or I'm young; I got forever to do that)... It scares me because like Christian, you don't. Like Tsunami's the warning can be too late. Find your security in Christ.
I heard a quote the other day (now I'm paraphrasing) that sounded something like.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid." - Marcus Aurelius

I was trying to figure what about this upset me and I kept commenting and then deleting it because it wasn't really what I was thinking. But I think it's the fact that being Just gives me a sense of fighting for what's right, which then implies that the gods have a standard of what is right and wrong and will actually care about devotion and not on good intentions... I can have all the virtuous intentions but i even fail my own standards and I'm not give an honorable interpretation of that god. All in all to say, there has to be a balance of Just and Love, which of all the gods I've ever studied that show a future... is the God of the Christian bible. Now, remember, God is not people and I can't base any burn I've ever had on God... I must take him at his Word!
In only that have I found true security, not just for now, but forever!
and cut scene.