Mentality Reality...
Today was a really creative day. Sometimes, ever so often - I get these moments when different streams in my mind intersect and thoughts that have been simmering for a while converge into a wonderful kaledeiscope of visions, ideas, and concepts that just keep bursting on the inside. It's like a batting cage where balls are coming from all over the place, but you're able to connect with them... like people in a room throwing grapes at you from every direction, and you open your mouth wide - wider - whoa - and all the grapes just fly right in there and you bite down grapes gushing all over the place... get the picture?
Usually, (unfortunately), my most creative space - the times when my "wonder" really gets to me is those moments when I'm just beginning to fall asleep. The fine line between awakeness and sub-outer-consiousness... if I can crack the whip at those moments and sort of get moving on the thoughts and feelings I have, sometimes I can capture the moment - but other times it sort of swishes away and I'm left bleary eyed and dozy... wondering why I even got out of bed again in the first place.
Being creative often leads me to thoughts of God and His whole style. One prayer I have is to get an idea of His creative parameters; just a little more - as much as I can take, make me like You in this regard... too often people in life and ministry just get stagnant... reproducing ineffective measures and structures over and over again.
If there's hope for a new church, it's one that can let go and take hold of new creative processes.
All of history is moving towards God, and everyone's destiny is wrapped up in that - our call until then, is to engage all of creation in the same way it was engaged... creatively.
Perhaps we need to realize that our identity isn't innately wrapped up in our career, financial state, or our education.
What is my purest form? How should that shape the way I relate and interact with my world? What am I becoming? What do I want to become?
Anyways - some thoughts on creativity, and a bit of an attempt to catalogue the rythms of my creative flow.
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