Erling Thu

Category: Creativity

  • Spending time in airports

    To be somebody is spending time in airports

    Waiting for the next flight

    Hoping it is not delayed or being cancelled

    Looking forward to arriving the destination

    To be somebody is to make time meaningful

    By observing unique people hurrying to their gates

    Or study those who are waiting like you

    Spending time waiting for the next flight

    To be somebody is to utilize the waiting time

    – in airports or elsewhere

    Through deep meditation or silent contemplation

    Or by releasing your creativity

    By writing simple poems

  • Expressing yourself

    To be somebody is to express yourself
    Through letter and words
    Scattered on the futile ground of websites
    To be found by seekers
    And read by hungry souls
    Communicating life
    As you are sharing of yourself in the virtual world

  • Unique strawberries

    To be somebody
    Is to marvel at the biological facts
    Of the spring fruit strawberries
    For strawberries are unique
    – Not only in taste and beauty
    But in their very construction
    It is the only fruit with seeds on the outside skin
    Birds and people indulge themselves
    With this unique and delicate fruit
    The birds become the source of spreading the seeds
    Thus ensuring that we will always have the fruit to enjoy
    People cultivate and grow strawberries
    Some to make a living
    And others to help people enjoy life

    To be somebody is to marvel
    At the simple facts of life
    Giving thanks to God for the details of nature
    As we worship him who keeps us alive
    In mysterious and artistic ways

    (Written after reading a comment by Jerry Mabb on my first strawberry poem.)

  • Creativity and beautiful living

    To be somebody is to create life
    In the virtual world or by physical material
    It is to give it a new form
    That touches other people’s lives
    Because it stirs their emotions
    Speaking with or without words
    Making the imagination pregnant
    Releasing exuberant joy
    And fruitful ideas of the heart
    Generating new forms of life

    To be somebody is releasing others into creative living
    By rejecting the self-absorbed life
    For a life of generosity and nobility
    The great things of a creative life
    Come out of small acts of faithfulness and love
    Every creative act is created in a generous heart
    Not out of selfishness or self-indulgence
    Creativity and generosity always result in a work of beauty

  • Free to create a new lifestyle

    To be somebody is to be free
    From dead forms and unnatural rituals
    – of the old traditional religion
    Not giving in to artificial patterns
    – of modern Christianity
    Not serving inhuman systems
    – of political ideologies
    Not giving in to any thing that stifles life

    To be free is to create your own lifestyle
    By submitting to the design of your Creator
    Only when you choose to be the person
    You are designed to be in the image of God
    You are enabled to create a beautiful life
    Because you are free to choose the beauty of holiness

    To be somebody is to realise
    That freedom and bondage
    Depend on your own decision

  • Moving soil in a wheelbarrow

    To be somebody is to move soil
    To reshape your garden
    And transform a hill sloop
    Into a vegetable garden
    By the use of a wheelbarrow

    To be somebody is to look at the heap of soil
    Brought to you by three big trucks
    And dumped in front of your house
    And behold beautiful fruits and vegetables
    In stead of black soil
    As you fill the wheelbarrow to move the heap
    To create a fruitful garden

    To be somebody is to use a wheelbarrow
    To start a new life of fruitfulness