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You may wonder why my current blog title is "Motremian Inspiration and the Christian Life" (and with good reason). I hope to explain this in this post as a reference point for all future posts.
Since I was little (being like 10 or so) I have had an imaginary world that has been the subject of many drawings hours of imagination named Motremia. I say world, but Motremia was usually either a kingdom or a country (almost always in the past, yet inconsistently between 500 BC and 1500 AD). I cannot pretend to be as creative or dedicated to such a task of world building as Tolkien or Lewis, but I have never intended to be (nor have I been) held to any sort of consistency accountability like an audience provides. Motremia was not a cry for help, an escape from family problems, nor an attempt at proving my creativity to anyone besides myself (and possibly Jasmine and John). I simply thought it was neat. I love the idea of world-building. I wanted to create civilizations, but with purpose--with direction.
I have, over the years, designed not only the buildings of the motremians, but also the ideas and philosophies at one point or another.
Exempli gratia (to sound smart!):
Sewer systems, residential dwellings, ancient airplanes, tanks, bows, crossbows, swords, rifles, bombs, grenades, factories, castle structures, waterways, clothing fashions, alphabets, scripts, art, families, main and secondary characters (for stories), histories and chronicles of war, politics, assassinations, kings, excavating technologies, uses of natural resources, infrastructure, government, religion (always a reflection of some sort of Christianity), tall tales, shops, so on and so forth!
I'm not a psychologist, and I have absolutely no desire to pursue such career. This isn't because I don't value the ideas or evaluations of psychologists because I do, even with certain disagreements. Therefore, I'm not going to make an attempt to give an explanation for something in which I am not qualified to give a viable opinion. There are people who have imaginary friends and are called crazy, while others participate in games in which they pretend to be fighting an imaginary fantasy war for a week at a time and call it recreation. I am sure that there are reasons for both from the psychology book, but what I find amazing is the simple fact that we are fascinated by that which we cannot see.
If religion were a complete and absolute creation of the human mind (as some suggest), inspired by nothing but synapses and brain cells, then I believe it would be the most beautiful social creation. Think about it: entire cultures--millions of people are shaped by one single belief in something that they cannot see. It brings about the most intimate and communal unity, yet in the same instance division and hatred. That is powerful!
This world is constantly looking for something beyond the physical--something "super"natural. They look in the horoscope, fortune tellers, magicians, tarot cards, ouija boards, televangelists' healing water, dreams, numerology, etc. Which this does not just include things considered evil, but also things that are just fantastic: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Halo, comics, etc. We are fascinated by those things which are out of sight. They may be out of sight because they are invisible or completely imaginary, but either case merits fascination. This is the case with Motremia.
When I was prompted by blogger to make a name for this blog, and I immediately thought "The Breaking Point." Unfortunately, the next thought that I had was a short and sweet, "lame." I kept thinking and mixing words around in my brain when I fell down a cerebral hill and stumbled out of the woods to come across the far land of Motremia. I then ran and frolicked the with local wildlife for about three hours only to be interrupted with the fact that people would start questioning my authority as a minister if they found me in my office giggling with imaginary field rabbits. So I decided on "Motremian Inspiration and the Christian Life."
To be 100% honest, that's not how it happened it all, but you know you enjoyed that more than if you heard the real story of me writing random things on a piece of paper till it came to me....... see? you just read the real account. Not fun, is it? Nope. I didn't think so.
So anyway, I'm a very big supporter of the idea of Heaven (y'know, being a Christian and all), and I am fully persuaded by the Word of God, that it'll be amazing when the saints of God (being people who have accepted Christ and followed Him) arrive. Our Father has prepared a place for us, and it is spoken of a lot in the Bible. I'm not sure if we'll play soccer after a few years of being there, but if we do, then I call goalie because you know I'll be a lot better than I am in real life.
Heaven is real and Motremia is not--and that's a big difference! However, Christians live their lives in anticipation of one day being caught up from this world of imperfections into another of complete and absolute perfections to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is a kingdom whose buildings we have not seen with our eyes, yet believe fully in.
To end (because I refuse to write short posts), I say this:
I am constantly inspired to draw and write by a kingdom that I have made-up in my head. Every bit of it is a reflection of Earth, a world that I did not create. The people are humans, whose design I could never have sketched out. They speak and laugh, all interactions that I am plagiarizing from humanity--God's humanity. If my creativity is shaken awake by such a poor display of plagiarist reproduction, then how much more should my life be shaken awake by a kingdom which contains more reality in a single atom than our universe contains in its entirety.
Our lives must be a perpetual echo of the mind of Christ--the king who designed this world and the next. We must realize that there is a Heaven and a Hell--two places that are neither imaginary nor have zero bearing on our current lifestyles an practices.
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
Romans 13:11
In Christ,
jamie
P.S. thank you all for all of the facebook comments on my last post. Very interesting topic! Feel free to post on either facebook or thisbreakingpoint.blogspot.com
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