“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious.”
Albert Einstein
To me it is downright spiritual when
writers get together to write, or musicians get together to jam or a bunch of
entrepreneurial types get together to brainstorm a new idea. “Where two or more are gathered…” the
scripture tells us, God’s on standby to join in, and I’ve noticed bigger things
transpire (and transpire more quickly) when those 2 or more are mindful of the
creative process (i.e. God) at work.
Whether praying for a friend or being
receptive to a new idea coming through, my personal interpretation of the Omnipotent
is synonymous with creativity, for there’s a synergy that takes hold at some
point, that is greater than the energy of any one individual, and it doesn’t
take a Picasso to tell you that this high is like none other.
Creativity, by my definition is taking
something “from the invisible to the visible” or “from thoughts to things." It
starts with a notion…an idea…a thought. That thought gets discussed with
another (launching the whole “2 or more” equation)…From there the manifestation
process takes hold and in ways that are totally mysterious, something manifests,
or gets created.
Einstein once said he wanted to know
the mind of God. The closest I’ve come to grasping that vast notion is when IN
the flow of the creative process. To me, this IS God in motion and I don’t
think this is something some of us have and others don’t. If we are made in the
image God, then it stands to reason we are ALL creating ALL the time; the only difference
lies in where we each individually choose to direct our currency. Some of us
create cookbooks. Some create gardens. Some create music. Some create
businesses. On the other side of the creative coin, some people worry (which is
creativity in the negative). Some create drama. Some create problem after
problem after problem. Whether you’re mindful of it or not, you’re doing it.
Your life is one big creative event, ever happening, ever unfolding. Whether
you wind up with a colorful masterpiece of a life or a dark and dingy scribble,
you’re the pencil in the hand of God and the way you draw that picture is up to
you.
To know God is to experience God as energy
or “life force” as some call it, which to me is a creating proposition. Each
day I wake up with some version of “Ok, God, what are we creating today?” Some
days it’s as simple as a clean kitchen or a balanced checkbook. In other words,
not every creative endeavor comes out the Mona Lisa.
When meeting someone for the first
time, and hoping to know them better, you look at where they’ve invested their own
supply of God-given energy. You look at their jobs…their family…material things
they’ve surrounded themselves with, be it books, clothes, cars, décor. By the
same notion, if I want to know what God’s all about, I would (in the words of
Maria) “Start at the very beginning” which, to quote the Bible is: “In the
beginning, God created…” (After that little
opening insight, the book is filled with one creative happening after another
from world to sun to moon to stars, to animals, then humans, who beget humans
whose creative stories just go on and on.)
I don’t sit and ponder the mind of God
like Einstein did, but I do marvel at the many displays of how God rolls. I see
creativity oozing from each and every life I encounter (be it human or animal
or plant); when it comes to experiencing the Divine in my everyday life, there’s living proof everywhere I look.
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