If you composed a highlight reel from your life, i wonder for how many of you Richard Branson would make an appearance.
Well he does for me, and actually as i was putting this together i remembered it was actually on two very different occasions… Continue reading
It feels almost like a daily thing now where I am tweeting or facebook-sharing or blogging about some latest idea of immense creativity [and often remarkable simplicity] that has blown my mind yet again and caused me to direct the question to the church [of who i am a proud member – well, to the body of active Jesus-followers for sure, the greater collective of people-who-call-themselves-christian-but-live-lives-that-completely-don’t-reflect-it i am a lot more nervous to associate myself with] and also to the world of when are we going to catch up?
this morning it was 14 year old Zev from Natick, Massachusetts, who is responsible for these incredible creations:
self-portrait by Zev, shared from article on demilked.com
Last week is was the Coca Cola company and this creative piece of engineering, viral marketing and political and human unification:
And last night it was this revolutionary new clothing fabric that you can spray on a person from a can and watch it turn into a t-shirt:
Which is all very good and well for art and product placement advertising and fashion design…
But more and more as I see inspirational creative designs, ideas and programs that different people are doing around the world my eyes go to the church [we do claim to follow the God who breathed the Universe into existence in a single breath or word] and have to ask, when are we going to get more creative with our creativity?
We serve the God who is able to do “Immeasurably more than all we can hope or imagine” [Ephesians 3.20] and yet too often we seem to be content with hoping and imagining for really small things [like a bunch of people to come and meet in a building week after week]. Now don’t get me wrong – very often Christ-following people have been on the forefront of radically creative inventions and innovations in fields like healthcare and home-building and water purification and so many other areas and so it has happened and is happening… but this call goes out to the rest of us, and especially those who have identified exceptional talents in themselves of writing and photographing and creating and bringing together and so on, to perhaps consider using our talents in the direction of things like poverty and homelessness and trafficking and racial segregation and war…
One such idea involved a really broken woman who ran as a means of finding some sense and sanity in the middle of a really messed up life, until something beautiful was birthed out of that…
And I’m not saying you have to be a Jesus-follower to do this and so this call extends to the whole world of course, but with our claims to be connected to the greatest source of creativity the world has ever known we should at the very least be there…
The creativity is in here… how about we get it out there..?
Irresistibly Fish 