I just watched an amazing video on Ted.com. It’s about Gever Tulley,s Tinkering School. It seems like an excellent way to unleash creativity and problem solving. This definitely helps a person see the world from a different point of view: a solution-based perspective instead of a problem-based one.
I don’t know about you, but the older I get, the more I want to create things. I have ideas that have lived with me since I was a boy - inventive ideas that won’t leave. I need to create. I think we all - in various ways - need to create. God is the Master Creative Artist and humanity was made in God’s image… we are creators. But so many of us choose the status quo of ‘trying to make ends meet’ and ‘keeping where it’s safe and predictable’, instead of venturing out into a truly creative realm.
I’ll be 35 years old next month - if I live to see July 27th. I’m amazed at the fact that I’ve been around on this planet for over three decades. What amazes me most is that over 15 years ago - fresh out of high school - I attempted suicide - feeling that there was no future worth me waiting for. But God is merciful, because I’m still be here when so many others have succeeded in taking their own lives. So I can’t take any credit for that. I’m so grateful for the life I’m living. It’s not free from problems, but it is fulfilling and beyond my limited dreams.
Did you know God answers prayer in creative ways? Sometimes even humorous ways?
RUNNING LATE!
I was running late this morning. Really late and there was an all-staff meeting at work. If I missed this train, I would definitely be late for the meeting. I had around 60 seconds to run two blocks and cross a busy intersection, with my briefcase in hand, to catch the train. I prayed, ‘Lord, please let the train be a few minutes late.’ The train had been ten minutes late on Monday and now it was Friday. I was on time Monday, but late today.
Do you have a book in you? I’ve been blessed to meet a lot of people because of my book, Transition: Breaking Through the Barriers. Quite a few are closet writers who open up when they discover my work has been published. This phenomenon has brought me to a significant realization…
I believe everyone, young and old, has at least one book in them. Why do I believe this? Because we all have a story . We are all affected by the lives of others and our existence impacts those around us. In writing terms, isn’t that basically what a life is… a collection of chapters that build into a story, which other people read?
