CREATED

I often ponder the nature of God.  I won't bore you with a litany of ideas, but I would like to share one that really resonates in me, an idea about the nature of God that sings for me.  It is the idea of God expressed in the blog title Created Creative .  It is the idea that God is creative.  God makes things.  God imagines things.  God puts commonplace things together in unique and amazing ways.  God plays with the qualities of things so that new things can be born.

I love this idea.  It is anchored in my faith tradition, but it should be rich for even an atheist seeking change for humanity.  Creativity is branded into the human soul.  People make things.  People imagine things.  People put commonplace things together in unique and amazing ways.  People mix up stuff until something new is born.  

In an interview on the Palladium Boots documentary Detroit Lives, Wayne Kramer, MC5 guitarist said, "[S]omething can come out of nothing; I mean, this is what artists have always done, is create something out of nothing."  I remember an early experience of awe looking up at Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River.  At some point, humans walked naked through this world eating raw food for lack of the idea of fire, and here I stood at the foot of a concrete wall harnessing the rage of a river to produce electricity for three states.  Something created out of nothing.  Material forged from an infinity of ideas. 

When my soul is stuffed up and sniffly from worries and pessimism, I like to engage the idea of God as creative; God by nature using detritus and chaos to make something from the nothing.  That idea helps me sing.  That idea supports imagination and possibility.  That idea is how new worlds come to be born.