Inspiration

I spent my day in Manhattan yesterday, having 2 appointments, but I had a 5 hour gap between those 2 appointments that I did not know what I was to do in the city.

Not having anything planned up, the first thing I always think of going is to the bookstore. The bookstore has long been a favorite place of mine to visit for many years, it became a hangout place where I could sit and read books of my hobbies and sip coffee. But I have not been doing too much of it lately and having to kill some time, I decided to go to 2 bookstores.

My usual go to sections of the bookstores are the food and architecture sections. This time around I spend more time in the food isle and get updated on some of the new books that are out, and found that I have been way behind on what's new.

I decided to take time and flip through the pages of some of these cookbooks and just within the matter of 10 minutes into the book, I began to feel a strange familiar experience. I had this feeling of missing out on so much beauty and passion for cooking that I used to have. Not that I have lost the desire to cook, but rather with so many other things in life that has preoccupied my attention. I was struck with inspiration and that sense of reviving passion for food.

I remembered that it was inspiration that drives me to do to the things that I wanted. There can be instructions or obligations, there can be fears, or even rational reasons, but none is as powerful as inspiration.

There are many things in our lives that we strive to do and not every one of them are done with such vigor and tenacity. But inspiration is the very key to that problem. Inspiration is the motivation to push a person to do something. Inspiration is hard to to kill, it plants in a person a force that seeks to breakout and see things coming to fruition.

Inspiration was the very thing that led me to the hobbies that I have today, it is the very thing that kelp me going with whatever the craft is. And very much so, that inspiration was one of the ways of which God has used to call me into ministry. Much like how the word was written from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I feel a sense of inspiration when God drew my attention to this journey of mine that has led to so much obstacles and it every time I revisit this inspiration of my calling; which is scripture, my heart gets drawn back into motivation and perseverance.

My day at the bookstore has brought reminders more than an inspiration for cooking, but also an inspiration for the life that I am living; of which Christ is the focus and it will continue to motivate me onward.