The architect designs and builds the pinnacles of the city and yet, deep inside, he yearns for a structure that is not subject to decay or time at all. "Where is it?" he asks.

The painter catches something, a vision, and lays it out on canvas. But the colors, the tone, the general feel of the painting is not quite what she had in mind. "Where is it?" she asks.

The road builder lays down the asphalt with his heavy machinery. He builds a road that connects to another road which then connects to the freeway that leads to the city. But what is the road home? What is the road to God? "How do we find THAT road?" he asks.

The salesman, out on the road, is selling his wares. What can he sell you that you really need most? Is it available? God is the only thing we need. Everything we buy on this plane of existence is in mere hope that our desires will be met. And everything we buy on this plane of existence will not meet the one true desire we all have. We need only Jesus.

The computer repair person takes the motherboard out of the computer and examines it. He adjusts something. He thinks, "Where is my motherboard? Can I be adjusted? How can I know God once again?"

The doctors and nurses work with human bodies all day long. The bodies wear the scars of judgment. The gang leader is shot. The construction worker fell off the ladder. The baby has a cut. Bodies, bodies, all day long. Are these our creations? These fragile containers that live a million times less than a wink in eternity? These containers, though created by God, cannot be the only vessels for God's children to live in. And yet we appear to be here. And we appear to be in them.

What are my creations? Are they my songs? Are they my writing? Or is it possible they are only what I do as part of my discipleship with Jesus? I take the talents God has given me and give them back to Him to use through me as He desires. I cannot repeat that enough. I take the talents (piano playing, singing, art, glass blowing, house building, management, etc) and I give them back to Him (by deep, humble constant prayer) to use through me as He desires. Let's truly let the Lord use the talents and drop all pretenses that we know what He is going to do with them. We don't have a clue and unless we choose to release our hold on our talents and their fruits, we will only gum up His plan. It is better not to do anything with our talents over choosing to do only our human, carnal wills.

God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven will come into each of our individual lives, not with the latest invention to entertain us, or to make life more comfortable on this planet, but with true submission to His will and guidance of the talents He gave us. That is true creativity. That is what our creativity is for.  

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