Our inspiration

Hello, world!

Well if you’re back for more after reading my first two posts, then I am honoured, and I thank you for reading.  If you’re new, I hope you continue this journey with me.  Based on my daily encounters, findings, news, etc, I am searching for what can bring the world together rather than divide, and how we can be happier if we change our focus.

Today I want to talk about something inspired by a Fanbox ad and a conversation I had with one of my colleagues.  Firstly, the Fanbox ad.  This ad was pointing out a fellow who was claiming to be God, and inviting us all to pray for him in order that he does not end up in Hell, or some such words to that effect.

Now he isn’t the first, and won’t be last, to make the controversial assertion that he is the embodiment of God or Jesus.  And such assertions always lead to either ridicule or accusations of heresy, depending on how offended one is on hearing his claims.  But – hold on a moment.  We Christians do believe in something similar, that the Lord is within us all.  I ask Him for inspiration every day.  And we are not the only ones.  Maxi Jazz, the lead vocalist of Faithless and a Buddhist, states during Reverance that “The Lord is in here” and we should cease to “continue to view the Lord as being separated”.

During a Christmas sermon at my parents’ church a couple of years back, the idea was put across to us that we can become better people if we let Jesus into our hearts.  So, although these fellows who claim to be God have gone OTT with the wording, they aren’t actually that far off what we all believe anyway – that He is indeed within us all.

What about other beliefs, I hear you ask?  Well I do not profess to be a theologist, but I do know that Christians, Jews and Muslims alike believe that all things are possible through God.  And chi or chakra, theories which my colleague pointed out during our conversation as forming part of other belief systems, also teach that inspiration and energy comes from within.  Whether you view chakras as essentially Atheistic in nature or not doesn’t really matter.  We all have something in common here.

And the fruits of our inspiration can be enjoyed by everyone, whether you believe they were inspired wholly, partly, or not at all by God.  What we read, watch, hear, so often comes sincerely from the heart.  Let us celebrate that as a species, and we may find that our enjoyment of others’ creations is reciprocated back to us when we create.  What better motivation for us?

Thanks for listening, take care.