Do you consider yourself to be creative? You should. Poet Luci Shaw explains why:
“We who believe we bear God’s image must realize that the image includes the capacity to imagine and create, because God is himself an imaginative Creator.”
All day every day, every one of us relies on our creative capacities to resolve complex relational issues, pull together dinner on a budget, or figure out how to get a cranky, teething two-year old to go to sleep. While we may not win any accolades or receive prizes for this work, we honor God when we acknowledge this reality.
I’ve spent the last thirty-five years writing and making photographs. Here’s a few things I’ve learned along the way:
1. Be inspired by others but don’t evaluate your work based on what anyone else is producing. Comparison kills creativity.
2. Similarly, don’t evaluate your work based on some imaginary standard. It’s far too easy to become perfectionistic when we create. The icing will not always shine the way it does on the baking shows. The sentence won’t always dance off your tongue the way you hoped. The melody might not match what floated through your head while you were in the shower. Don’t let that stop you.
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