By Sri Harold Klemp
The Australian bushmen, or aborigines, are a native people concerned with preserving nature to maintain a balanced life within it. They kill for food only when necessary for personal nourishment, and to do so, they use the creative imagination.
Long ago, the aborigines used the divine faculty of imagination in inventing the boomerang as a means of winning their prey.
A bushman would carefully fashion the instrument, then decorate it with paintings of the animal or fowl to be hunted. He went so far as to draw the detail of the prey. If it was a bird, he carefully described in picture form the type of bird he was hunting and how many he intended to catch. In other words, he clearly defined the object of his hunt by drawing pictures of it on his boomerang.
By being so direct, he was bound to get the food he needed to bring back to his family. Much of this understanding has been carried forward to the society of the aborigines today.
This is the use of the creative imagination which is the Divine Self within each of us, the God spark, or Soul. When the creative imagination is working in us, then life is happy and right. You wake up in the morning and everything is rainbows and sunshine. This means you are living and operating under the hand of God.
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This positive, creative nature may find expression in countless ways: cooking for loved ones, the needy, or as part of one’s profession. It may be in planting a garden and taking care of it. Or you may read a bedtime story to your child, grandchild, or neighbor.
You may put your love into starting a business. Or sewing clothes for yourself or others. It may be in stopping to chat with a neighbor or friend or dropping someone a note marking a special occasion. Or sharing another’s grief.
Ways upon ways.
As a matter of fact, most people express these positive and creative traits every day—but they do so unconsciously.
Doing something for another on a daily basis reflects God’s love for you. It’s the standard outside yourself.
What, then, is your mission?
It is to search for and discover your creative talents. For in finding and doing something of a positive nature, you love God.