The Creative Side of Things
A blank canvas. A ball of untouched clay. A white wall. A block of wood or stone. The artist has the ability to look at such an object and see something that is not yet there. And then they pick up a brush or a chisel and they create what their mind sees one stroke at a time. It's amazing to me: the creativity placed in us as human beings. That creativity has to come from God, the best creator I know. He took an empty, void, dark universe and saw something there that no one else could have imagined. He saw light and a world with mountains and reefs and sunsets and people - people who he would love, but who would reject him, so he would construct a plan to sacrifice his only son in their place so that he could be reunited with them in perfection and in eternity. Who could look at nothingness and then create that ? Such a marvelous mystery, such a wonder, such an epic story. That's our creator God. A piece of the creator God lives in each one of us, and I...