This was quite encouraging to me, being a person who loves to create. God is the creator of everything...including creativity. We were all made in his image, and so we all are able to create so much more than we even know. Now, we all have our own special areas of "gifting", but I am a strong believer that everyone can do anything if they truly want to...especially with the help of Jesus. If we are supposed to be followers of Jesus, and use his example to show others what He is about, then we've gotta be creative, as he was, or people will get BORED! (As many have.) The quote below is (again) from The Secret Message of Jesus, by Brian McLaren.
“In a sense, Jesus’ creative use of parables sets and example for us to follow. It inspires us to ongoing creative communication–seeking to convey the kingdom through the symbolism of words as he did in the sort fictional form of parable, and also in poetry, short story, novel, or essay. But it doesn’t stop with the symbolism of words. People have been inspired to express the kingdom through the symbols of space and form, color and texture–in architecture and interior design. They have used the symbolism of movement and gesture in dance and drama. They’ve used the visual languages of painting and sculpture and collage and flower arranging and gardening. Even the symbolic language of taste can express the kingdom in cooking. Come to think of it, we might say that the kingdom of God is like and arts colony…”
I don't know how to make links, but here's my amazing boyfriend Derek's blog, and he discusses this a little bit as well.
http://dhansen.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/5232007-peepss-blog-reimagine/#more-18
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- san francisco, ca, United States
- i love taking pictures and laughing.
2 comments:
here is how you would post derek's blog as a link.
i have had a few different technological geniuses teach me how to do this throughout the years.
here's what i typed in first (before i typed in "derek's blog"):
a href="http://dhansen.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/5232007-peepss-blog-reimagine/#more-18"
you just have to put < > around it, like if you're inserting a picture. AND you must make sure you include the http:// in the web address or else it won't link correctly and no one will be able to click it and go where you want them to go.
then after you are done with that you can type whatever you want to end up looking like the link. so in this case you could type "my amazing boyfriend derek's blog" (not in quotes though) and then when you want the link to end, you have to put:
/a
but in the < > again.
easy easy easy.
if you don't put the /a then the rest of everything you type will either be a link, or it won't show up at all... i'm not sure. i feel like sometimes one thing happens, and other times another thing happens... so just make sure you put that at the end.
if you have any questions, then let me know.
oh, and also. if you wanted to have a picture take you to a link, you can do that too. just put the img src code inbetween your a href and /a code.
haha.
i am such a technological genius myself!
love you!
p.s. i think i would like to read that book.
it was good seeing/formally meeting you at reimagine. good luck with the experiment. i won't be able to make any more meetings though. hope it goes well.
i'll throw in my agreements with the praise for mclaren's book.
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