Scribbling in the Sand

I've been reading a book that my husband gave me about a year ago that I didn't read then. I picked it up the other day in continuation of my renewed reading journey. My husband, Matt, gave me the book because it deals with creativity as it pertains to the modern Christian and it has become a blessing to read the thoughts that Michael Card put into words so well.

"Because we are called to creativity, a working, gut-level understanding of the imagination is vital. It can be our greatest strength or our greatest weakness. Sometimes it is both at the same time! To harness the imagination, or better yet, to bring it under submission to Christ is something about which we don't talk or pray or do enough. But before it can be redemptively used, it must be reclaimed."

I am guilty of this. Not once have I thought or prayed about something so vital to the creative process to harness its full strength. One of my college professors always talked about how every human being has been given the gift of creativity in one form or another, because, after all, we are made in the image of God and the first thing God showed us about himself was that he was a creator. So, who better to seek inspiration and knowledge about creativity than the One who first demonstrated it in Scripture.

Scribbling In The Sand: Christ and Creativity
Michael Card