Who Is Blaine Alain Gibson?

An article in the guardian  dated September 26, 2016, entitled The man on a solo mission to find ​the wreckage o​f​ flight MH370, [1] introduces Blaine Alain Gibson.  According to the article, he is a single man in his late 50's, has an apartment in Seattle, Washington but no car and no house.  "He passed his bar exams in 1993, but has rarely practised [law] (his father, Phil S Gibson, served as chief justice of the California supreme court from 1940 to 1964)." [2]

Blaine Gibson's life is unconventional, and his idea of success is not based on monetary gains, the accumulation of capital and the ownership of property, real, tangible and intellectual.  "It’s been decades, in fact, since his life has conformed to a standard nine-to-five." [3]  He has apparently been blessed with enough resources to not have a regular job and still travel the world.  "He can speak six languages, and has said it is his dream to go to every country in the world. Mozambique, where he was technically on holiday, was number 177 on the list. 'I’ve stopped at that because I’m trying to find the [missing MH 370] plane,' he says. 'There are other places I want to go, but the plane isn’t there.'"

Can Blaine Gibson pass for a self-sufficient and self-funding secular but spiritual monk of some kind who does not wear a robe with a hood and a rope belt and who goes around helping others without proselytizing?  In the past, he had helped friends in Laos set up a karaoke bar; now, he is helping families of those who had lost relatives on MH 370 to find closure. [4]  The article does not say whether Blaine Gibson believes in God but that is typical of the secular media, only finding God relevant when God's existence is being questioned and when God has been turned into a political pawn by evil forces.

While Blaine Gibson may not be particularly religious in the open or at all, he could be deeply spiritual.  When he travels the world, he is perhaps trying to connect with events that had touched upon humanity through time, and with the locals, speaking an eighth language, the language of the heart, without bringing different religions into focus, just as Christ said to "love thy neighbor" [5] without qualifying what neighbor to love.

This blogger does not know Blaine Gibson but thinks that he could be an ambassador of the angels, doing some of the people's work for God, in the way he sees best with the resources he has been blessed with, often in combination with finding the truth he so intently seeks, and wishes that he finds it and the Truth of God that awaits him.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/the-man-on-a-solo-mission-to-find-the-wreckage-of-flight-mh370

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid.

[5] https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?qs_version=KJV&quicksearch=love+thy+neighbour