to be honest, I hadn’t thought of it until you brought it up.

I’m a graphic designer and artist and constantly wrestle with this tension between the expected and the truly creative. It’s always encouraging to see how universal the creative struggle is.

It’s telling that we use such cliche when communicating to God/about God. Our language (verbal, visual, musical, whatever) can be an incriminating indicator of our most unconscious feelings. This is especially interesting when we consider how God communicates to us.

From what I’ve experienced, God communicates to us in ways that are the exact opposite of cliche. I think of the Bible as “Living Word,” or Christ being the most extraordinary and surprising manifestation of God, or how creation is constantly reviving itself and making itself new.

To see God as creator — as an infinitely creative being — is profoundly inspiring to me, both as an artist and as a communicator. And it challenges me to learn to create and communicate in way that reflects this.

Thanks for the great post!