It will come as no surprise to anyone that Inspirational music comes to us as a result of thinking.  Before it is expressed through the fingers or gets jotted down at the end of a pencil, it first originates in mind.  I’ve learned, as a composer, that when I’m stuck and the music is not pouring forth, to take my hands off the keyboard and let mind imagine it first.

This always works.  It works because I’m going back to the root of creativity – mind.  I’ve always said that my best work comes through me figuring that the best ideas come from God or a higher power or source, but the portal that the ideas come through is mind.  Perhaps they don’t originate in mind or brain, but they exist somewhere out there or ‘in there’ already and we’re just here to provide the portal.

Take the creation of the Internet for example.  The Internet was not invented by any one person, but rather by a group of men and women working together trying to find a better way to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities.  It exists today because man thought it up.  The idea existed also back in the 1940s before it came through mind’s portal and also existed 5000 years ago just as the ideas for the telephone, the computer and the airplane did.

Its time came because the mind of man thought it so, opened up his mind to the idea, considered it a possibility and thought so deeply about it that it came into being.

I think you could say the same thing about the atom.  No one’s ever seen an atom; it’s just there in thought, but we know it’s there so it’s there.  It exists because we think it so and atomic energy is the result of that thinking.  One could even say that all matter is a result of that thinking.

Now we’ve heard it said that matter is simply illusion.  So what is illusion?  The dictionary defines it as: “a. An erroneous perception of reality.  b. An erroneous concept or belief.”  Matter is an erroneous perception of reality that man thought of, but he was wrong.  And now quantum physics is proving just that – that matter does not exist.  It only exists in erroneous thought, so if you want to change matter, change thought.

This is the basis for all healing.  Do you want to heal your cancer or your AIDS or your heart disease or your financial problems or your marital problems or your amputated leg?  Change your thought!

Doubt if you like, but this was the whole basis for Jesus’ teachings. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. John 14:12

Jesus healed.  He walked on water.  He raised the dead.  He said we also could do these things and greater.  He didn’t say we could fly like birds, but that came to us as part of the ‘greater’.  He didn’t say that the world would communicate through cyberspace, but that also came as part of the greater.  He didn’t talk about splitting the atom or looking into other galaxies or digital music being comprised of a series of zeros and ones.  But he did know that thinking makes it so and so whatever we wanted to invent, to create, wherever we wanted to go, whatever crazy idea we came up with, we could put into effect because of the power of mind – the power of our thinking.

Let’s make no bones about it.  Our thinking is a God-given gift.  We develop it through schooling, experience, increased knowledge, but intelligence, or the ability to think is God-given.  Man did not invent thinking.  I believe that man just learns how to open mind’s portal a little wider and let in or let through ideas that already exist.  No space, no time – just God’s ideas laying un-thought of somewhere in God’s attic just waiting to be put into practice.  Imagine the grand ideas yet to come!

Let’s get thinking!