On Mother's Day, Dr. Ethel Sefakor Boadum draws a parable from the kangaroo: the joey is born the size of a grape — blind, hairless, limbless — yet crawls unaided into its mother's pouch, latches on, and emerges eight months later a full-grown kangaroo. Your hidden season works the same way: anchor to the Source, open your mouth wide, and stay in the pouch until God brings you out.
The seven movements
- Fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139 frames the wonder: the God who formed you in the womb designed even the kangaroo's pouch — a survival system that preaches (Psalm 139:13-14).
- The joey's impossible journey. Born after about a month, grape-sized, blind, deaf, and hairless, the joey crawls six inches in three hours into the pouch — alone, with the mother only licking a path for it to sense. If you feel like an embryo — new to the faith, mid-separation, between phases — the path to safety is still open (Luke 15:1-2 MSG).
- God sees the solitary. He sets the lonely in families, numbers the hairs of your head, and keeps your midnight tears in His bottle. Nothing you've cried is wasted (Psalm 68:6; Matthew 10:30-31; Psalm 56:8).
- Latch and open your mouth. In the pouch are teats; all the weak joey must do is anchor to one and open its mouth — the mother expresses the milk herself. "Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." Position yourself, stay latched, and let God do the feeding (Psalm 81:10).
- Milk and honey — the end products. "I have come down to deliver them… to a land flowing with milk and honey": God names the finished provision, not the goats and bees. The testimony of local honey healing allergies makes it practical — the land itself carries your remedy (Exodus 3:7-8).
- A thousand times its size. Thirty-four weeks latched and hidden — self-cleansing pouch, antimicrobial, all-inclusive — and the grape becomes a house cat, then at eight months a kangaroo that leaps thirty feet. Growth happens while hidden: rest without guilt like Elijah under the broom tree, take daily manna without hoarding, keep developing, stay close to the Source, and prepare before you're released (1 Kings 19:4-8; Exodus 16:19-20).
- "Fear not, you worm Jacob." God calls the weak thing a future threshing sledge: mountains beaten to chaff, rivers in desolate heights, cedar and acacia and myrtle planted in the desert — so that all may see and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this (Isaiah 41:13-20).
Walk away with this
Don't leave the pouch prematurely, and don't despise the hidden season — rest, feed daily, grow quietly, and stay latched to Jesus. When God brings you out, the leap will tell the story.