The Creator's creators

I sometimes wonder why it is so satisfying to create something new. And like always, I have a hypothesis, otherwise I wouldn't be tapping my fingers on the keyboard to write this up! So here goes...

I've pondered the verse where it says 'we were made after His image', (Gen 1:26-27); and thought about the possibilities. Certainly the verse implies that God put a LOT of thought and heart into us as His creations. I bet He really enjoyed it too! And I have a conjecture, that in making us, He put a little bit of His own expression into us. Kinda like how some musicians, artists, and other 'creator' types of people have their own distinct signature so to speak; their pictures and music and whatever has the original artist's own expressions put into it. "

This makes me think that we all have some little expression of God in our personalities, His little stamp of artistry. Kinda cool right? So in fitting that in with creation...

This is for all the people who like to create things. I love to create things; and I find a joy in finishing a creation that just makes me want to leap and yell into the air. Even if its as simple as a batch of cookies. There's something fun about it, adding the ingredients, taking the time to measure it correctly, experimenting with measurements of cocoa and flour to produce the right combination for a chocolate cookie; all the subtle details. And then when I'm finished and bite into the first warm cookie, I just want to go crazy and share them all with anyone who's nearby.

And you know what? I think that feeling that I have, isn't so alien to God. I mean...can you imagine how excited He must have been when He began forming the dust into our shape, pouring His loving thought into creating us. And then finally giving life and WHOA. Here's a talking chocolate cookie with free will! Not really, but seriously stop for a moment and think. I like to think God must have leaped and yelled and got really excited to share His new creation; which was us.

I think that's why as creator's, we love it when we get a fresh new idea, and feverishly we pour our being into it, until we run into a wall, or finish it. And when its finished...man gotta tell the whole world! I can't eat a whole batch of cookies by myself..got to share it.

That's what creator's do; create something beautiful, and then give it away.

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours." -C.S. Lewis