Have you ever tried to create something?
Maybe write a book, paint a picture, sculpt a statue, play an instrument, learn a language, throw some clay or one of the other myriads of ways that we as humans can create things.
Now I will admit that I can’t draw, and I never got past grade 2 of the violin, but I find my creativity through writing. I love writing – be it stories or non-fiction. Something about flowing the words from my mind onto a screen or piece of paper makes me feel alive. It’s one of the reasons I started writing these articles was because it gave my writing some direction.
But my problem, especially when writing stories, is that I struggle to finish them. I’ll write page after page of words, developing, complicating and resolving it but the ending, the elusive conclusion always just out of reach.
And I think something similar happens to us all. A person on a painting who is just not quite right, a clay bowl not quite level, a note on an instrument just sharp.
Nothing is ever quite perfect, because only God is perfect. And that is ok. If we were perfect, then there would be no need for God because nothing would ever need sorting out, everything would run perfectly.
But of course, we are not perfect. We make mistakes, we fail, we do very badly. But that is ok, because we have God to sort us out, pick us up and dust us off. And as long as we trust in him then even when what we create isn’t perfect, God will be there to set us on the right track.
Harry Booton
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