117 - Relationship with Creativity (Part 2)
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Living Creatively
Relationship with creativity requires that we not only dream and imagine what could be, but we also think about “it” and step into doing something about “it”.
Dream/Imagine > Think/Plan > Do
When a person steps into living in Creativity, the fourth relationship, which we are created to do, they are willing to be vulnerable to hope.
Hope is an action verb that means a person is reaching towards what may not be realized.
Living in the fourth relationship entails risk, making the other three relationships a foundation of security and a place to report to and return to after “pouring out” or “reaching out.”
We need to know our own hearts, the hearts of others and the heart of God to have the foundation and resources to maintain courage in the struggle to create.
Many people live lives of quiet desperation by not letting themselves be known, and thus, they never really take the risks of stepping into their own creativity.
Many people do everything possible to avoid the possibility of “stepping out of line” for creativity’s sake, to avoid being made fun of, resented, mocked, or rejected.
The empty approval for “staying in line” can become the practice of living in the fantasy of doing something, but actually not taking true action. Our need for others’ approval and the anxiety of losing approval can “make” us postpone our lives’ possibilities—sometimes unto death.
People who do “step into” paying attention to how God made them to create, will get hurt more, sometimes feel very lonely, will have periods of sadness, because that is the price we pay to fulfill how God created us—to live fully, love deeply, and lead well in a broken place.
Knowing our feelings and being able to use them is essential if we are to create.
Anger is required for creativity to have expression:
Anger, as referenced in The Voice of the Heart, is required if we are to live creatively.
Anger is the feeling that makes us willing to be vulnerable.
Anger moves us to take action with our wishes, desire, longings, hope, hungering and thirsting or something.
Anger moves hope into action.
Anger is the willingness to be in pain for something that matters more than pain.
Everyone is creative
God stitched each one of us together in our mother’s wombs, “fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:14, NIV)
We are all made in God’s image. God is creative, so we are, too.
God made each one of us gifted with the possibility of contributing to life in a good and beautiful way.
God did not miss a stitch when he created you and me.
However, we often have to recover or be restitched because of the way the world attempts to “unstitch” us.
You and I have gifts and there is a world in need of our gifts. If we do not imagine-think-do with our gifts, people who need our gifts and what we are created to do will miss our gifts. Even just as important, we will miss the joy of getting to help repair a broken world.
Your worth isn’t in the fourth relationship. The expression of your worth is.
See who you are made to be so you can do what you are made to do.
Dr. Chip Dodd
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