Creativity

On February 28, 2017January 13, 2018 By happyreignIn Heather, Kingdom Concepts, PaintingLeave a comment

Oh Creativity. Creativity is powerful. It transcends the mind and enters the soul. It moves the heart and causes us to feel winds of life. Creativity enters our senses, whether through interior design, music, cooking, art, or dance, and so much more. It’s the theater that causes us to cry and the fashion that leads industries. Creativity is the solution to the worlds problems and the builder of bridges that speak across the barriers of language.

Heaven is the origin of ideas. Heaven is the place color comes from. It’s the revealer of the unseen and the origin of society’s progress. The words that form the books that causes revolutions are the fruit of creativity and original ideas. Liberty is expressed through creativity. Life is witnessed through expression. Our participation with creativity reminds us we too are the outlets of divine beauty in addition to our counterparts in nature.

Songs awake emotion buried deep beneath life’s experiences. Have you drank from the river of creativity. Is the taste fresh in your memory? There lies a thin veil between endless original movement and sound and our present reality. Everything is accessible. Anything is possible. Do not belittle or underestimate your innate ability to create.

My admonishment is to discover how creativity lives through you. It may be in computer coding, wood craftsmanship, the making of the perfect coffee drink, how you express financial spending trends, how you cause your loved ones to experience your love, the painting of your own nails, or even the style of your walk.

Life is made alive, life is made fun, through creativity. Creativity is a muscle that grows stronger the more you use it. Unique and new expression causes the sparkle to return to our eyes and causes childlike wonder in our spirits. Elementary education may unrecognize and underdevelop the power of creativity in young people but that is in part because its hard to quantify and we’re taught it doesn’t make as much money as practical skills like math and science, although both of those fields can be saturated with creativity as well.

In actuality creativity sells like Gold in any culture. Fashion, film, television, writing, singing, performance, advertising, theater, design, art, musical skill, fine dining, and the like, the best in all of these fields are priceless in their hiring and sought out all over the world. Creatives shape the reality everyone experiences every day, including the look of your home, the device your reading this on, the clothes your currently wearing, down to the packing of the food you have in your fridge.

I cannot communicate the importance creativity plays in God’s kingdom and the synergy heaven shares with life expressed through humanity. Our expression, humanity’s expression, is like the flower in bloom of our species. It appears not to have a necessity just as a flower but creativity is the beauty and aroma of our generation.

Character Covenant Creativity

Family Freedom Gift Giver

Joy Judgement Kindness Trust

Love Praise Prayer Self-love

Gift Giver

On January 7, 2017January 13, 2018 By happyreignIn Heather, Kingdom ConceptsLeave a comment

Spreading Kingdom Cheer For All To Hear

I wanted to lighten the mood and communicate some truth through this next piece entitled Santa. There are some really healthy concepts we can take from the fairy tale relationship society has with Santa that would be correctly applied to God. If this offends you, you should probably stop reading this and do something else that makes you happy. 🙂

Here we go. For some reason Santa always is depicted as the nice guy, he’s in a good mood! God, however, he’s the scary guy. He’s the mean, tight-fisted, we gotta perform for him to get us to love him guy. Santa on the other hand loves us all unconditionally. He doesn’t put anyone on the naughty list because he wants to, its just what he’s gotta do and that’s on you. God on the other hand sometimes get depeicted as delighting throwing people in a hell they deserve. That that kind of justice makes him happy inside. Mr. Cruel. 😦

Joy, abundance, generosity, celebration, warmth, comfort, safety, color, wonder, awe, love, and all those other things so many people associate with the idea of Santa and Christmas all come from God, that king born in a manger. He’s the guy that’s not a stubborn, boring, unfriendly stoic savior. He nice. And not only that, he’s funny. He’s understanding and patient. He likes you and enjoys your company. He delights in your creation and is full of wonder of the person you are becoming. He looks forward to time with you and believes in you more than you believe in yourself.

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When it comes to giving Santa’s reputation far exceeds Gods. When it comes to getting something from God, I picture intercession, fasting, declaration, and sacrifice. When I picture getting something from Santa, all you have do is tell him and sometimes he just knows because he’s that good and nice! And he always wants to know and give us what we desire just because he’s that awesome!

In my dreams I sometimes have Christmas dreams. I know God is revealing himself to me as the generous giver of glorious, wonderful gifts. He’s doesn’t mind the correlation when it raising our expectations of receiving good things from him. He loves giving good gifts to each of us. It brings him delight.

People always depict Santa as being for us! He’s on our side, but God, sometimes he likes us, sometimes he likes us less, or at least that’s what people believe! I’m sorry to say this but Santa didn’t die for you. He didn’t need to because Christ already did. If Santa died for you, he would have died, but you would still have needed an incarnate savior. Santa doesn’t possess within his endless resources the gifts we truly need in this life.

We never question where Santa gets his funding or what his real motives are for all of this generosity. We never wonder if he has enough resources or enough gifts that pertain to our specific desire. Availability is never questioned.

What’s In His Bag?

For some reason we put limits on gifts from God especially when it pertains to ourselves. God can’t possibly have enough joy for each of us, can he? I don’t really deserve that much joy? There obviously isn’t enough peace for my enemies and me, is there? I can’t possibly have peace and health today if I had it yesterday, right, I mean, that’s just not the way God works right? What does God want from me, what is he trying to do, is he just going to take this thing that I like away? We never just reason that God’s good to us because he’s good.

I’m not talking about God giving us plastic junk (not that he can’t communicate love to us through those things). I’m talking about our lives being filled with abundance of his goodness and our hearts overflowing with heaven’s wonders. Goodness no price tag can buy and the stuff rich men long for, sometimes found in abundance among the poor.

I love the Christmas season. It is a tiny prelude to the abundance of heaven’s eternal warmth, goodness, love, forgiveness, togetherness, sparkle-y-ness and generosity. Merry Eternal Christ-season.

50 Conclusionary Thoughts (from life experience)

On September 10, 2016December 10, 2016 By happyreignIn Heather, Reflections & Musings3 Comments

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Salvation is not earned, it is a gift.
God loves everyone more than we can fathom, not just a small group of religious people who earn special entitlement (still taught in the church today)
The practice of spiritual gifts is not more important than the practice of love.
Operating in power is not necessarily more powerful than operating in faithful love.
Expression (creativity in any form) can be an act of worship and is free from failure because the purpose is in the expression.
God can repair anything that appears unrestorable.
God can carry you through something you can’t carry yourself through.
God can make beauty from ugliness.
Many of the most precious things in life never draw attention to themselves.
Sometimes things that revolve around lots of attention are rooted in brokenness and unhealthiness.
God cares more about our inward peace than our outward performances.
Relationships based on expectation aren’t based on love.
Different seasons of our lives can feel like completely different lifetimes and aren’t always meant to be resurrected once they’ve passed.
God has the ability to keep me better than my ability to keep myself.
God only is ever acting out of love towards me.
I can always trust God completely, including with absolutely everything, right now.
Money has never been a good enough reason to direct the course of my life.
Risk on the side of courage, fearlessness, and failure rather than on the side of safety, self-protection, and the approval of others.
God has never asked us to worry and never will.
God lives extravagantly.
God doesn’t love the church because she’s earned it.
Lack of understanding is not cruel, it is freedom and a fertile land for growing trust.
Remembering our forgiveness really can make any cloudy day bright.
The most selfless people on the planet have the titles “Mom” and “Dad”.
Everyone is worthy of love. No matter their religion, location, looks, or titles. No one has earned it.
God really does know the intimate details of our lives.
Some christian movements that have drifted into maintenance of works or divisive theology began with the strong, simple message of God’s love.
Love listens.
You are meant to enjoy being alive.
God can take any negative influence in our life and make it a place of liberty and strength.
Belief in Jesus is coming into the realization of the truth that he loves us.
Being understood feels good but is largely inconsequential in life.
All things are heading towards the unveiling of God’s goodness.
Eliminating the desire and the need to control other’s words, actions, or choices is your first step towards loving them.
The root of control is ultimately fear, not love.
Nothing can replace the experience of God’s love in our lives.
Your value in God’s eyes never had its origins in your perceived productivity in his kingdom. He has already given you his love for free, not as a reward for works.
God does not love in gradients or degrees, it is who he is.
Feeling bad about something does not earn your forgiveness for it.
God’s gift to humanity is people. The people in our lives are a gift to us.
Love is not motivated by fear.
Your relationship with your family is more telling than the accolades of strangers.
God created people to fall in love. With him and with one another.
Let yourself be happy.
Let yourself change.
You are really forgiven, live as such.
Play is one of the secret weapons of living.
God is good company if we let ourselves simply enjoy him.
Yesterday and tomorrow have no right to steal from today.
God helps us become friends with ourselves and helps us stay that way.

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