Comments on: “The Anointing,” Imitation and The Ridiculous https://anitamathias.com/2012/09/04/the-anointing-imitation-and-the-ridiculous/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:05:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/09/04/the-anointing-imitation-and-the-ridiculous/#comment-18290 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:34:14 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/09/04/the-anointing-imitation-and-the-ridiculous/#comment-18290 I have a very prolific writer friend whose output I admire immensely (in quantity, not quality). It's always been a challenge to adopt her great work ethic and work habits, while remaining myself–dreamy, a bit lazy, reflective, sedentary.

She says that if we could morph both of us together, her productivity and work ethic and research habits, and my writing style and reflectiveness, we'd be an amazing writer–but that can't be done, I guess, so the world will have to have two of us.

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2012/09/04/the-anointing-imitation-and-the-ridiculous/#comment-18289 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:37:06 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/09/04/the-anointing-imitation-and-the-ridiculous/#comment-18289 Just had a conversation about this very thing last night with hubby. He's missing his dad terribly and so has been chewing and plotting and scheming to start up the work his dad used to do. My hubby is not at all gifted in those same areas, but is incredibly and amazingly gifted in other areas…they just don't produce the same tangible result as his father's gifts. It's hard sometimes to escape the lure of imitation when trying to honor someone's memory.

God made us so differently for a reason…He never does anything wrong…so why do we (as the human race in its entirety) spend so much time trying to conform and punishing non-conformity? There is a huge difference between living in cooperation and living in conformity.

And there is another chasm between adopting a good habit from someone you admire and imitation. I believe that adopting good habits from one another is essential to our spiritual health, but then we have to own those habits and morph them into our own personal expression, not imitate directly.

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