We are living in a boldly creative era. Our everyday choices include questions such as: Who am I? What do I want to be? What sort of life can I create for myself? And these questions have not just permeated our simple choices such as places to go or new things to do. In recent times, our imaginations have expanded their boundaries to reimagine our hormones, body parts, sexual orientation, and even pronouns. We have claimed creative control over everything that has to do with how we exist in this world.
It is celebrated, it is shamed, it is debated, it is defended: our creativity, and the freedom to live our own beautiful lives. However, it becomes confusing as we explore our gifts of creativity and also rival our gift of identity given from the Creator of all things.
Man was made to create. He was made in the image of God. He was given dominion over all the creatures, the highest place among the animals and birds and fish. But mankind’s unique gift is that we were made to call things, name things, create things.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
We all experience this here and now. Creativity is what separates humans from the animal kingdom. The phenomena of paintings and poetry and fiction novels. The ability to dream up and produce an iPhone. The unique thought and expression of self that each of us feels in our gut. It is what we were made to do.
And so it is not crazy that we want and desire to create and recreate ourselves in every time and place. Our gender, Our identity, our purpose. We have the vision. We have the tools. We have the ingenuity. We have the birthright to do so. So why not?
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