The Power Of Inspiration

Article written by former minister, Femi
Olukayode. Read below...

Dark is the heart that weeps and bleeds.
Pure is the spirit that overcomes pain.
Free is the soul that activates faith. Pure is
the joy that true love brings. Yet most
important of all is the power of inspiration.

That grace and strength that encouraging

words, steeped in knowledge and
experience, bring. We can only heal and
help those in pain when we ourselves once
experienced that pain. We can only shed
light in darkness when we ourselves once
walked in that darkness.

We can only lift others up when we ourselves
have once been down. Inspirational prose is like
speaking in tongues to the unlettered- they
cannot possibly understand or appreciate it. They
know not it’s value and they have no use for it’s
strength. Like Shakespeare once said, to them,
‘’tis caviar to the general’’.
Yet to refined souls and sensitive spirits it is
everything. It is the shield that protects and
preserves our hearts, thoughts and emotions- it
is the very essence of our being.

To the learned and enlightened it is like the
burning fire, bringing in glory and blessings and
ushering in the marvellous heat of the golden
sun.

It inspires, it brings laughter, it brings tears of joy.
It brings hope even to the most hopeless and it
ushers in a rustic and complex form of spiritual
resurrection and rejuvanation. That is why it is
wise and good to learn from our experiences and
share it with others.

One short and encouraging note to a despairing
soul may well save a life. One kind smile or a few
words laced in love may well give cause for those
who have lost all hope to think again and give life
another chance.

One tiny expression of compassion or passion
and one small gesture of kindness, support and
love to even the most unlovable may change
them forever.

A helping hand extended to a complete stranger
may inspire that stranger to have faith in
humanity and to have an encounter with God.

May those that understand the essence of these
words never lose sight of this glaring veracity.

May those who laugh to scorn the power of prose
and the beauty of the word continue to wallow in
their abject poverty of the mind and dearth of
knowledge and understanding.
In all, strive to love, to care for others, to show
compassion, to be merciful, to be kind, to be
loving, to be forgiving and most important of all
seek to inspire and bring hope to others.

An encouraging smile to the weakest and most
frightened amongst us at the most unexpected
moment could do it. Or perhaps an unexpected
phone call to a long lost friend.

Whatever it takes give someone joy, particularly
the lost, those in pain and the broken-hearted,
that our Lord in heaven, the God of mercy and
truth, may know your worth. This is indeed God's
work and it is a glaring expression of the power of
inspiration.

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