What is Gods word on creativity

What is Gods word on your talents and creativity?

When I was younger I heard beautiful singers and longed to be able to stretch my voice to the same heights as their vocal cords went to. But no such luck…A dream, but no physical manifestations of my dreams.

I adored ballet as a child and for years I watched brilliant ballerinas and longed to perform those ingenious stretches and poses, but Oooooo my muscles and tendons never became as flexible as my fine feathered swans from Swan Lake.

Often with photography I feel the same, I see the earth in all its magnificence, I see a picture in all its graciousness, I see another photographers precise and exotic creations, and my hands and fingers don’t seem to want to go in the same directions as all that I see with my eye.

Why can’t I soar to such brilliant heights as Picasso, VanGogh, Michelangelo, Ansel Adam’s, Steve McCurry….?

Why aren’t my efforts as gargantuan as theirs?

Oh wretched person I am. Am I forever bound to the confines of my incapacities?

But is that the truth, who says that these works of art are to be highly prized above all others. Who declares that these creations are better than all the others?

I think God does not say this, there is a story in the bible,

Matthew 25.14-30

For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Perhaps the moral of the story is:

Even if you have one talent it will be useful to someone.

Even if you have doubt and fear, you still put your talent to work regardless of your feelings.

Even if others are supposedly far better in their creative abilities and have amazing talents, comparisons are futile and who says that their work is more beautiful than yours. Beauty is supremely selective and differs vastly from individual to individual.

Each and every human is a unique and gifted person. Don’t fear the scary and wary human boss, but ignore him/her and invest your talents into something worthwhile.

There is room on this earth for vast amounts of unique and productive creativity.

If indeed you want to benefit this earth and its occupants, your talents are equally as good as all others, make sure you put them to good use.

We can connect our art to this biblical story and thank God that with His creative ingenuity, he decided to create us with a wonderful array of amazing talents.

My images below are of myself out taking images working on my craft. However my husband was the photographer for most of these images.