Making Something

Sometimes when I want to make something, but I don’t know exactly What there is this sense of anticipation, as if I am about to create a masterpiece.

I know, I feel, I sense that something really awesome is about to happen…even if I don’t know what it is yet, or what it may look like.

I have an idea…

The urge to make something…

I’m on the edge of creativity…

I’m on the verge of creating something amazing…

and I have to find it….

I have to search for this masterpiece through a process of playing and working with my hands and experimenting and trying things and pushing my boundaries.

Do you feel this sense of mystery and and anticipation when you create?

I think it’s the Holy Spirit, hovering, as He did at the beginning of creation.

Hovering, calling us forward, calling us into the mystery of making.

Mystery, because WHAT we create has yet to be.

It’s this spiritual and emotional process of finding the masterpiece within us, in our mind’s eye, in the unseen spiritual realm and bringing it forth into the tangible, physical world for us to enjoy, whether purely for pleasure and beauty or for only practical, useful reasons. It was something out of nothing, just like you and me.

(Sidebar: I heard someone say once that God is really the only one who can create because creating literally means making something out of absolutely nothing. You and I, therefore, strictly speaking, just make things, not create, because we are already working with materials that are physical — we’re not creating something out of nothing. I would have to do more research to see whether I agree with this 100% or not, but I do think it’s an interesting thought and one I’ve chewed on for 20 years. The question: Do we, as finite humans create, because the creative process generally starts with a non-tangible picture in your mind? The work is then to bring this picture into the physical world. Or is God the only one who can literally create? Maybe both/and?).

I have to follow this mystery, this process of making, this finding of a masterpiece.

Every artist knows that it takes time and skill to bring forth a true rendention of what they see in their head.

We all know the disappointment of ‘That’s not quite what I saw in my mind.’

But we still have to follow this calling, whether the final result is truly a masterpiece or not, we’re learning to follow the Holy Spirit, to go where He guides and to co-create with Him.