Thoughts become Sermon

Poor imitations
Humans are imitators by nature. For better or worse we take one the characteristics of people we are around. If I point at someone I use my whole hand, vice just a finger, a trait I picked up from a guy named Kirk. If I can’t understand what you said I will ask “your what hurts?” a humorous response one of my chiefs used to say. Many more, many we will not write here because they are less than pretty, or PG. As I think about this it seems to me that all my habits ticks and personality are reflections of people I have been exposed in the past.
I have been aware of this for quite a long time, as it relates to the Navy. Long ago I was told that people who concentrate on not being like someone usually end up being just like them, Probably because they spend so much concentration on that person they end up imitating them. I have developed a theory about conscious imitation. I recognized that many of the people I was looking up to did not share my goals, and so I had to alter my way of looking at would be mentors. I now tell my subordinates that you can take something good from just about anyone, if you are looking, and you can pick up bad habits form the most squared away Sailor.
Applying this template of thoughts to a broader scene and I have some interesting hypothesis. First everyone has been in some way exposed to the source, God. This is why we all have a basic common instinct of morality, that spans all faiths, and cultures. This concurrent instinct that can hardly be fully explained by biological or anatomical rational.
Getting more and more like a sermon: What went wrong? For instance why would a teenage girl intentionally get pregnant, and say I just wanted someone to love me. The rest of the Rational minded people say “what were you thinking?” This makes more sense if you believe that God created humans from the beginning for his enjoyment, that we were designed to love and adore him. If you believe that we are infect created in his image. What if she is acting on some latent instinct picked up from the creator, from the beginning. Before I get tarred for sacrilege, understand that I am not employing that she has picked up a bad habit, from God. Instead I think she is confused and engaging in unintentional or incomplete imitation. I am not sure how broad this theory, and it is that a theory can be applied.
Full on sermon: Perhaps that is another way to look at discipleship is “intentional imitation”. Not just doing what he did. But striving for the why, the heart behind it. I will pick up more habits from those who I spend time with, it is my nature. The trick is to consciously imitate my mortal heroes not to judge them but to be aware of what I is I am picking up. And to consciously imitate the creator so we can get it as close to imitation this side of eternity.