Boy, am I technologically challenged. I know I've said it before. I've left it on voice messages without even knowing it. But today I realized just how technologically challenged I am.
I am at an art conference in Chicago called Story. It is here that realization came clear to me and my iPhone-less hand. How do you download an app? You can MAKE apps? How many people here are talking about making their own videos? You can do that? I can't even get the paragraph spacing right on my blog.
I will admit that this place has made me hate technology less. Okay. It's made me see that it's not all consumerism and bad. It can be used to glorify God in various art forms. Here it is used with glory and not glorified. There we go, a healthy balance indeed.
But that's not what I want to talk about. Kinda'.
I have written quite a few posts on this here technological machinery about God's creation, his artwork, and us as his greatest artwork. I have tried to convey the amount of joy he must find in us as his greatest piece of art. Think of your most prized work as an artist. Think of the fondness you feel towards that thing, and then think of how much more so God feels that towards us as this planet... this universe.
My feelings and thoughts towards this skyrocketed into a whole new level of understanding today as one of the speakers conveyed something at Story. Here's a little background on what he was trying to say-
We take thoughts and we can make them tangible. We can make them into things. We are the only species who can take a dream and make it a reality. The rabbit thinks "hungry" and eats some grass. Although I may never truly know what a rabbit is actually thinking, that is basically all that comes from his thoughts when he's hungry.
What about when we are hungry? The God-breathed, made-in-His-image species that the Lord created. It depends on what we're hungry for, but whatever it is we create it. We imagine, dream, think, conspire, and then create it. We make something that was once intangible into something great. Some of us make gourmet food for our physical hunger. Some of us create businesses or charity's because we want to see justice in the world. Some of us make sculptures or mosaics to speak from our own hearts to others hearts. And some of us write words. For what? Sometimes I still don't know. But if it's a God-given desire then dammit, I'm going to exercise that.
We are the only species with this gift. Yes, beavers build dams. Have you ever seen one of those things? They're amazing. But they all build dams. They do it out of instinct and they do it out of survival. Each and every one of the creations that come out of us is different. They are individualized to who we are. That's a hellofalot better than a beaver dam.
What an amazing, bountiful, inexplicable honor it is to have such a huge gift: Creativity. Look around you; creativity is God's thing, man. And look at how he did it? He spoke and said, "Let there be..", and there it was. He anointed us with that power- The minds for creativity and the power to say, "let it be".
That is an important and HUGE gift! Don't squander it. Don't bury it. And don't use it with mediocrity. Do not, I tell you, use it with mediocrity. Do you think the Lord did anything mediocre? Let's see, "That human kind of sucks, but he's good enough I guess. Eh, we'll keep him. Let it be". Sounds like God.
That's not the kind of Let It Be he gave us the power to use. That Let It Be gift he let us have is a gift that lets our passions be inside of us and around us, in both the intangible and tangible worlds. That is truly a mind-blowing conception.
Guys, create. That's all.
