Inspirational People

What sets people apart from being normal to being inspirational? What is it about those inspirational people that makes you want to be just like them or spend as much time with them as possible? Think about the people in your life that inspire you to keep going, to pick up their torch and to keep it alight. I can think of a few people in history that are very inspirational to me; Jesus Christ, William Booth, Mother Teresa, Rachel Joy Scott, to name just a few. What makes these people different?

What about the little people in our lives? Maybe your parents, your brothers and sisters, aunties, uncles and grandparents. Maybe a teacher, or friend. What is it that makes them inspirational? What sets them apart? I have a few ideas of my own.

The first reason would be the Holy Spirit. There are very few inspirational people out there without the Holy Spirit. If you have that light inside of you, you can't help but shine. People are drawn to you even if they don't know why.

The second would be the way they live life. They seem to make life look easy, even though you can see the pain they are going through on the inside. They come out the other side learning from their experience and teaching others.

The third would be how much they care, love and give. They care for everyone, no matter what you have done and no matter how horrible you are, they just keep caring. They love you just like Jesus would and they give their everything; money, time, energy and their own life.

The forth and final reason would be that they don't care what others think of them. They do what God is calling them to do. Inspirational people always have a huge amount of followers and they could say jump and people would. Having said this, there are a huge amount of inspirational people out there that just live normal lives and by doing the things they do, they change someone's life; feeding a homeless person, befriending someone at work or school who has no other friends. I believe everyone is an inspiration to someone, you just don't always know it.

I just want to say thank you to the inspirational people in my life at the moment – you all know who you are. There is one very important person right now in my journey of life that has no idea how much they have inspired me to just keep going and I thank you.