January 28, 2008
Wow! Great! Super! “They told us to be creative and not get caught in a rut so that is our invitation to go out and party and live it up!” WRONG! Being creative doesn’t mean going out and seeing what trouble you can get in to or how big of a party you can throw just to escape the boring rut you think your life is in. First of all you need to understand what a rut means.
A rut is something we get ourselves caught in that is hard to get out of. The daily routine of getting out of bed, going to school, coming home to do homework and clean your room isn’t a rut. Sorry! It may seem like it but that is just a part of every day living. You will soon learn it’s no different when you’re an adult. You get up every morning, go to work, come home to do what needs to be done around the house like cooking supper and cleaning up after yourself or paying bills.
What gets you into a rut is your attitude about what you are doing. The more negative the thoughts the deeper the rut, the more complaining the wider the grooves. When you are not growing spiritually inside, making progress in your everyday emotional growth you are in a rut that needs escaped in a creative manner.
Where would Walt Disney have been if he didn’t have that creative mind to build what he did? What about Orville and his brother when they were experimenting with something that was suppose to make them fly. The world is full of creative people who took their creativity and developed it. Being creative isn’t limited to the “big stuff” that you could do to make you rich or famous. It covers many areas both big or small, simple or huge.
It is at this point I would like to apologize for our generation and the generation after us that decided that learning how to be creative wasn’t important. Instead they decided they would do it for you by bringing amusement to you instead of you to the entertainment. Another mistake or lie that we have passed on to your generation is the lie that you have to be entertained to get anything out of life. The sermon at the church needs to be “entertaining” in order to learn about Christ. The classroom at school has to be amusing in order for you to learn. Oh dear, wrong again.
No, being creative (resourceful, imaginative, inspired) can be done in the simplest of ways and its up to you to find those ways within the boundaries that God provides. In the process enjoy the journey. You’ll be surprised how fun it can be staying on top with the Lord instead of down in the rut where Satan would rather us be. No one but yourself can get you out, make the right choice. Go with God.
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About Me
- Karen
- I reside in Oregon, with my husband of 32 years. I'm a mother of one and grandmother of six, counting my two newly adopted grandsons. I teach a women’s Bible Study. In June of 2007 God asked me to take with me the things I had learned in my own Christian walk to help those traveling down similar roads. A journey that started with a head injury in Jr. High School and the epilepsy it was to create later for 7 long years. One day I was given the key to my cure. In order to have the surgery to cure the 10% of my seizures that were truly epileptic I was told I had to get rid of first the 90% that were stress caused. For the next five years I took my stress issues to the Lord, leaning and relying on Him and His word as well as catchy sayings of others to see me through. As peace, obedience to God and giving up bad habits replaced worry, stubbornness and disobedience my stress seizures began to disappear. Finally I qualified for the surgery. The end result after 20 years has been being seizure free and pill free all those years. Praise the Lord. God is the cure. I can be contacted at karijo_fluffy@yahoo.com.
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