Today, I’m taking your questions…
About Life, about Creativity, about God, about work, about ministry, about you, about me…whatever.
Do you have any burning questions smoldering about anything?
What do you wonder about?
I’m not promising that I have all the answers and fixes. But, let’s see if we can help each other out today, somehow.
Lisa – I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the place of ego in creativity. I mean, we can say all we want to that writing/painting/dancing is its own reward, or that we write/paint/dance as our gift to God, but the fact is that we put our writing on our blogs and I’m assuming people put their paintings somewhere and try to find ways to share their dancing. Is it egotistical to seek an audience beyond the Zen-like peace of one keyboard clattering? If a blog appears in the forest of the internet and no one is there to read it, has it really been written? But am I interested in myself or my message?
Here, I would venture that the social aspect is almost as important simply because it is so human. (I only say “almost” because its method can be so easily corrupted.) We are geared to interact, to relate, to share, to communicate. So, I would say that it is quite important to include an audience, or even seek one, so long as it doesn’t derail the original purpose of the creation in the first place. God created, and included, and shared. Jesus came, went public, healed, for an audience,
and
also in the absence of one. God could have done it any way. Privately, with a divine revelations issued separately to each one. But no. Indeed, it most often takes other to spread the love and message. It’s the human component. It is the “This is Good” part of Creation that doesn’t degrade when we create either.
Doug,
Here, I would venture that the social aspect is almost as important simply because it is so human. (I only say “almost” because its method can be so easily corrupted.) We are geared to interact, to relate, to share, to communicate. So, I would say that it is quite important to include an audience, or even seek one, so long as it doesn’t derail the original purpose of the creation in the first place. God created, and included, and shared. Jesus came, went public, healed, for an audience,
and
also in the absence of one. God could have done it any way. Privately, with a divine revelations issued separately to each one. But no. Indeed, it most often takes other to spread the love and message. It’s the human component. It is the “This is Good” part of Creation that doesn’t degrade when we create either.