For your pondering: on ideas and creativity

Worth reading at the ChildLight USA blog:  "Being Swept Along is Not Enough," by Rebekah Brown Hierholzer.

"What I do know is that the creating process doesn’t always look finished or polished.  It’s often messy or noisy.  It is replete with all the flaws that come with being human, but it is exhilarating.  One grand morning, a group of 8 and 9 year olds and I took great delight in contemplating the Creation story as we never had before.  What must it have been like to hear the great and roaring bottomless depths of oceans being pushed within their boundaries for the first time?  Or for fully grown trees to instantly, at a Word, break forth from the ground?  Or for the earth to be filled suddenly with great herds of ultrasauruses with footsteps like thunder?  The glorious noise of it all!  These images we imagined of the Creator creating with wild abandon and sheer joy helped free us a bit more to “break forth” ourselves."