Create(ing)…

This morning I woke up
Feelin brand new, I jumped up
Feelin my highs and my lows
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin
But I been thinkin I got my reasons
Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by

So, I was eating lunch with my friend Greg a couple of weeks ago when he explains to me that he found a camera earlier that day.  Greg lives in the woods in Chapel Hill and he immediately tried to sell it to me.  Greg and I have a good relationship so I told him that he should keep it and take pictures throughout the week.  My promise was that I would get his pictures developed and buy him some new film the following week…

Creativity is beautiful…

Creating God’s first Act…

We are “created” in God’s Image…

Our humanity is centered on the fact that we can create.  When we take away someone’s opportunity to create we take away their humanity.  This is taking the one thing that makes someone human, the one thing that brings someone dignity and the one thing that brings someone a sense of worth and purpose.

When we give people a way to create, we are restoring their dignity.  God created us to create…

Why is it that we find so much joy when we create?  Why do we find so much joy in art and music and literature? 

Think about your favorite music or your favorite artist…

Think about your favorite hobbies…

Think about your favorite books…

We find so much joy in creating and seeing other people create because we were made to do so.  It is integral to who we are as humans.  To create is to show our humanity and our ability to give beauty to our Creator and to others. 

Without our ability to create we lose our identity.  We become lost.  We become blinded.  We lose hope.  We lose Joy. We lose everything…

But, what would happen if a community gathered together and said we have had enough?  What if we decided to give back the ability to create to those who have lost everything…to those who are outcasts…to those who have no identity…to those without hope…

I wish you could see the excitement in Greg’s eyes when I told him I would have the pictures he took developed by the next Wednesday.  I wish you could see the excitement in my eyes to see the art that Greg was able to create. 

Create, create, create…it is what we were made to do…

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. – Virginia Woolf

Life is trying things to see if they work.- Ray Bradbury

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.- Henry David Thoreau

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.-Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Never take a person’s diginity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.- Frank Barron