This coming weekend, I have the privilege of presenting three sessions at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
One of the sessions is titled, Create to Connect: How to Find and Build Meaningful Community Online.
I realized after preparing my talk that while we do in fact create to connect, I could’ve also titled the presentation, Create(d) to Connect — or even, Created to Create.
As people made in the image of a triune, Creator God, I believe one of the ways we reflect His image and our identity in Him is through creating.
Maybe that looks like whipping up a meal for those new parents in your church. Or perhaps for you, creating involves Bible journaling with stamps and stickers. Maybe it looks like building that treehouse your kids have been begging to have for years. Perhaps your role is to create space for the outcasts and marginalized.
As Christian writers, we string letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into pages. We do the work not only for ourselves or for our readers, but for the One who gave us the ability to create.
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“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” ~ John 1:3
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This post is Day 3 of 31 Days in the Life of the Christian Writer, written in five minutes flat in conjunction with 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes.
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Yes! I love this and recognize when I am writing that it’s what I feel like I was created to do, and doing it, honors Him. It’s harder to constantly check my heart and make sure that I’m doing it for His glory and not my own praise, but I think that’s all part of the journey.
I’m loving this series, and while I’m too busy this moth to comment on each post, I’m definitely following along and excited to see what’s next.
This is true, Kate. “Creating” takes so many different forms, and allows us to manifest something bigger than ourselves.
I’ll be writing about ‘art’ next week, and it’s importance in our lives, so this is a great resource! I wish I could be at the conference! One of these days, I’ll make it (my teaching schedule always seems to interfere :/).
Holy Spirit was speaking to us along this similar vein. Makes my heart smile with confirmation. He is in this! Creating through us… What a privilege!
i find that reading the writing of others inspires my own creativity… cause it always leads to rabbit trails. 🙂
Annette,
That has also been my experience.
I have found much inspiration from the poets on TweetSpeakPoetry.
Katie
THIS:”As Christian writers, we string letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into pages. We do the work not only for ourselves or for our readers, but for the One who gave us the ability to create.”