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Ex Creatio

In the beginning, God created
  • heaven and earth
  • day and night
  • water and soil
  • plants and animals
  • man and woman

God created ex nihilo: Out of nothing
What wasn't, now was
And it was good

God made us in His image
One way we reflect this image is in our drive and ability to create

We make
  • cities and dams
  • houses and shopping malls
  • clothes and furniture
  • stories and songs and dances and masks

We create ex creatio: Out of what God made, we make.
  • Every time you write a paper or an email
  • When you greet or comfort someone
  • When you cook a meal or play a game or dance a swing
  • When you paint a portrait or sketch a cartoon
  • Every time you do something in a way that never quite existed before, for a purpose or context that doesn't duplicate a previous purpose or context exactly

You are acting like God

But love compels us to take one more step
  • nurture a small group
  • commission someone to write a song or a poem or craft a chair
  • help someone translate the Bible into their language
  • tutor a refugee
  • raise a child
  • Every time you inspire or prepare someone else to create, you are performing one of the highest, most satisfying and enduring acts of love

You are not God, but creativity flows through you
And in that, you are like him 
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  • Home
    • Brian's Story >
      • Brian in Plain Prose
      • 1Haiku
      • 2DustbowlNoir
      • 3StreamOfConsciouness
      • 4BrownWordle
      • 5ChicagoLimericks
      • 6ZaireJesterStory
      • 7FranceIdeologues
      • 8LosAngelesSchräg
      • 9Hagiography
      • 10HeavenSpokenWord
      • Brian Summarized
      • Narrative CV
  • Songs
    • Brian's Songs >
      • Always Toward Heaven
      • Home in Your Eyes
      • Glimpse
      • Further Up
      • Eau de
      • The End
      • Waiting for Me
      • To Be Free
      • What Does It Matter?
      • All I Do Is For You
      • Elwyn & Marilyn
      • Liminal Lullabye
      • Lydia's Christmas Song
      • We're Not Alone
      • Your Beauty's In Christ
      • Our Garden
      • Melinda Meloo
      • Austin Schlemaustin
      • Lydia
      • Jacob Brian
      • Psaume 139
      • Put It In His Hands
      • This Day
      • Leaves
      • It's Not Me
      • HD Blues
      • A Ring and an Island
      • Always Toward Heaven
      • Perfect
    • Brian Singing Others' Songs
    • Lynelle's Eternal Dance
    • IziBongo
    • High Jinks
    • Lori Tapia >
      • The Places We've Been
    • GlenOak
    • Stan Hamm
    • Beth Hamm Elliot
    • Vintage Enns, Hamm, Schrag
  • Reflections
    • First Moments in Heaven
    • Spiritual Musings >
      • DoHardThings
      • Bolt
      • Shadows
      • SittingLikeMary
      • Worshipping at Home
      • Ex Creatio
      • A Better Joke
      • In the Storm
      • Brian's Creed
    • HD Journaling
    • Schräg
    • Being the Fool >
      • Vele
      • No where to hide
      • Tuning Wars
    • Academia
    • In Memoriam >
      • MarilynSchrag
      • Elwyn-Schrag >
        • EdnasCoda
        • Thanks Dad
      • EdBartlett
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    • Anchor Beads
    • Butter Dish
    • Poem On Stand
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