Then the LORD said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and grasp it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

- A Prophet

Diversity, Curiosity and CREATIVITY are three principles on which human life flourishes.

If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not neglect the gift that is in you.

living water

I am made in the image of God, not your image of God.

"There are things that we need to examine, especially if are calling ourselves followers of Jesus and to find ways in which we can take those things and learn from those things and be inspired thought those things, to find ways in whcih we no longer need to be shackled by guilt and shame, which sin often is uses theologically, and find ways in which we might liberate them so that they no longer become these huge things that we need to face but rather that they become opportunities through which we can grow."

"Perhaps the 'sin of sloth' is not achieving the fullness of whom we've been created to be, because we've listened to the lies of someone else, instead of claiming the healing power and grace of Jesus Christ in our lives."

"Get up today and walk! Get up today and live! Get up today and fulfill the dreams you have in your life!"

And that's another cool thing my Senior Pastor told us.

DIVERSITY
CURIOSITY
CREATIVITY

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"Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." Pablo Picaso

Being fully functional and wholly human!

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Today, we might call it movie magic, but when I was a child it was every bit of real to me. They opened doors to wonder.

If not the first, then one of the first movies I ever saw was Moses! Someone forgot to tell me (and I am truly grateful) that movies aren't real.

Nevertheless, a wonderful movie, like any great story, confirms some deeper understanding of who we are. It invokes wonder. It changes us.

Behold all of creation - a living, breathing, vibrant reality - a movie alive. I am in the movie. I know the star.

So, what was in this blockbuster movie that transformed my relationship to the world in which I live and love and have my being?

Here is a depiction!

    Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’” The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.” Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. But the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

      The LORD furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. “If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign. “But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

      Then Moses said to the LORD, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” The LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? “Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.” But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

"Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance." Elif Shafak.

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