I have always been enamored with creativity. And just like a Renaissance man from the 1500’s, I want to dabble in all forms of it. This is who I am- how I was made. But thinking beyond a simple interest and hobby- I believe creativity is in the depths of everyone. Weather you are in a lab testing DNA, preparing a lesson for your 3rd grade class, engineering new technology for the next hybrid, designing cell-phone towers or scrimmaging with your Monday night soccer league you must use creativity to succeed. Call it ‘trouble shooting’ or ‘problem solving’ –face it; you seek to be creative! And as Mike Buchanan states …

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I see a reflection of myself in this glass filled and red. The hollow attempts are all left and dead. In my hand this glass is now broken and so am I. All was spoken, he died and now I am alive and free, to be the reflection that I see. This is the man I need to be.

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It’s almost two in the morning, and I’m sitting on a porch in upstate New York. A couple electric fans are shifting the cool air around and stifling the silence of the sleeping house, but otherwise, everything remains motionless – even the animals have quieted for the night. Basking in this stillness, I feel closer to God than I have in weeks, even months. Maybe it’s the quiet, maybe it’s freedom to let my mind wander between prayer and dreaming, or maybe God prepared my heart tonight for His muted voice. But looking into the ink black of the sky, I am starting to understand what I’ve been struggling …

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