Greetings Dear Reader,
Probably every writer making
a secondary world, a fantasy, every sub-creator, wishes in some measure to be a
real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality
of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or
are flowing into it. – On Fairy Stories – J.R.R. Tolkien
Each morning when I face the
blank page of this blog I wonder for a moment if what I write will matter. I wonder if those who fane to read my scribbling
will walk away with benefit. My desire
to create is directly attached to my desire to reflect Christ.
It is the image of God in us
that pushes us to create. It is that
desire to create that has me up and writing in the wee hours of the
morning. My creations are
imperfect. My creations are still an
attempt to embrace the Imago Dei. Each
of us has this drive. We all wish to
create in some way.
We seek to deny this aspect
of God’s image in us by denying that we are created beings. I wonder at times if the urge to explain away
our existence as accidental is an urge to deny the image of God in us. When we deny this we deny a fundamental part
of our makeup.
Why, if we possess the power
to create entire worlds do we at times feel the need to deny our own creation? Why do we use creativity to relegate the
Creator to myth? It is that call to
create that tethers us to our Creator. It
is the need to invent that tells us we were invented. Although this is the most subtle of the
facets of the Imago Dei it may be one of the most powerful. It is this facet that draws from within us
the image of God that procreates beauty.
We find in our creativity the
very essence of bringing forth things that are new and things that revitalize the
old. We carry in us an urge to make
because we have a Maker. In that urge is
a keystone to finding that Maker if we will seek him honestly.
Wishing you joy in the
journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to
them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule
of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things
from his great treasure store."
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