Tag Archives: creation

Yep, I’m an egotistical, approval-seeking artist. So what.

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One of my new favorite bloggers, Sam Mahlstadt of CreativeTheology.com, wrote this about the Christian creative (full post here):

Following “The Fall” the man and woman moved from a place of joining God in creation to a place where they created for themselves. …and they sewed together leaves to cover themselves… When we transition from joining God in the creation process to creating for ourselves, a sense of desperation enters the process. Joy is wiped away, and replaced by utility (those who engage their creativity completely apart from God rarely know creating apart from utility). Utility is not beautiful. We can try to dress it up and lie to ourselves, but utility is utility. I bet the man and woman from the garden would agree. So perhaps it’s about perspective, or relationship, but one thing is clear. If you create out of and for your own glory, fulfillment will be constantly out of reach.

And I replied by saying this:

I say we do it in spite of the ego. Ever since the fall, man has walked with a spiritual limp… But this isn’t an excuse to stop walking. In the same way, I don’t think the ego can be fully escaped this side of heaven. We are spirits trapped in flesh. Until we are freed of our flesh, we will not be free of our ego. But we still have a purpose. We still have a call. And we still have a creative nature. And so we should continue to live out the image of our Creator by creating.

What do you think? Have I lost my egotistical, approval-seeking, God-given mind?

“Why can’t we lie?” – a small peek into my brain

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Remember that crazy challenge to write 800 words a day? Well, I’m still typing my way through it. Here’s a slice of last night’s rambling pie – unedited, exposed:
broken. we are all broken. right? but some mask it better than others – like emotional make up. like emotional clothing or something. what if we couldn’t hide stuff – like the movie about lying – about the first man who started lying? what if the rest of us spoke the truth all the time? i think I’m ok with hiding somethings – at least some things. we’d rip each other apart if all we did was tell the truth all the time.

the invention of lying.

it really is amazing that we can act – we can create – we can lie. think about it – no other creature on the planet can lie.
actually – that’s not true

deception is a part of nature – those butterflies/moths who have “eyes” on their wings. those birds who fluff up to look bigger – more intimidating. the bugs who are shaped like tree leaves.
hello?
the whole world is lying.

if God created creatures who survive on deception, how come we can’t lie?

Can you see the sound?

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Y’all. I watched this video and it blew … my … mind:

“Consider for a moment, that sound does have form and we’ve seen that it can affect matter and cause form within matter… Think about the universe forming and think about the immense sound of the universe forming. If we ponder on that, then perhaps cymatics had an influence on the formation of the universe itself.” ~ Evan Grant