What idol are you worshipping?
I had an interesting interchange with someone today. he said “ Oh are you one of “ so and so’s people?” He was referring to a popular figure that I had taken a seminar from. I looked at him and said “ No, I’m not anyone’s person. I think he might have been offended but it was not a personal comment to him. It was something that had been in the tip of the tongue of my mind.
The universe works so beautifully. I had just been pondering that whole idea of idol worship and there he was with the question.
It’s no accident that we have a show in America called — American Idol. We have fun with the name and the whole process of choosing the “Idol” but I’ve been thinking more deeply about what idol worship is about. (more…)