Do innovative ideas come from partnership with God?

A little more than 100 years have gone by between the 1918 Great Influenza epidemic and the novel Covid-19 pandemic.

My grandfather died at age 36 of the 1918 flu. He was a Methodist minister, home from his assignment in India and surviving yellow fever, only to die of the Spanish flu. Isn’t that ironic?

The current Covid-19 took me by surprise. In March 2020, I was tutoring at a local high school when we were told that we were shutting down for three months.

At first it was great, a time to relax, clean up the house, get rid of a few items taking space in the house, but then it grew to six months, a year. Now, as I am writing this, more than a year and a half has gone by and I am ready for a new “normal”.

Life has a habit of changing. Sometimes we may not enjoy what we are experiencing, but, we are gifted with the ability to move along with it and change with the times.

Spirit created each of us, and we were given free will. As a result, the world has moved to create new things. Throughout history scientists have been inspired to develop vaccines for polio, smallpox, antivenoms to help victims of poisonous snake bites, and most recently a vaccine to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

God expresses in each of us as we partner with that higher power through prayer. The word of God works through us as we come up with an idea and use our mind and hands to bring it into existence.

Everything that exists was made twice—once in someone’s mind and then in reality. A chair, an automobile, cellular telephones, all were once an idea before they could be created in reality.

This speaks to me of a higher power behind all creation. It matters not what you call it: God, Buddha, Spirit, Elohim, or Mother Earth. It is all one power behind creation. A rose by another name is still a rose.

Businessman and author Walter Starcke in “It’s All God”, says, “When we realize that God is One, we never fear because we, too are One. There is an invisible thread tying us together. That thread is the Christ Consciousness that God is. God is within us because God is our consciousness, and we need not look outside ourselves for God except to see the God in and as all that is.”

Dennis Merritt Jones, author and speaker, tells us, “Christ is unconditional love, nonjudgement, forgiveness, brotherhood, peace and oneness with God. Perhaps true Christianity is more a lifestyle than it is any one particular religion.”