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.

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW:  It’s from James Nachtwey, an acclaimed journalistic photographer, and is about a new strain of Tuberculosis that is proving to be very deadly in 49 countries around the world.  

The problem seems so large and I as an individual seem so small.  It’s so easy to focused on our own lives that we are oblivious to countless others around the world who are suffering in ways we can’t imagine.  It’s easy to shut our eyes and close our ears and restrict our hearts on this issue, but this would be the wrong choice.  We are all created in God’s image.  We are all connected.