Observe.
Stop and take in the sights, sounds, behaviors, delicacies, and eccentricities of what is around you. Fix your gaze on what not lies behind your steps or under your feet but what is in front of you, around you, in you and through you. Be willing to be stretched, challenged, grossed out, uncomfortable, or proven wrong. Realize the importance of what it means to focus on understanding and examining your present situation.
Meditate.
Do not let your observation pass through the back of your brain but instead grasp it. Grab hold of it and let it become your sole focus. Just like a glass ball suspended in a dark room, fix your gaze upon it and then meditate. Meditate the complexities, the simplicities, the colors, the outcomes, the potential that is packed so tightly into the keen observation.
Create.
Allow your mind’s eye to guide your hands, your words, your motivation. The glory instilled within us gives us no choice but to create. It is out of this divine creative inspiration that the observation and meditation collide into a tangible piece of work. It is then this piece of work ladies and gentlemen, that will reveal the ultimate glory of our Creator.
In short, I have come up with these three words to live by. Whether I am observing culture, nature, or suffering, this is my primary process.
I have been called to create.
But even more so I have been called to be knowledgeable, educated, well versed, relevant, and bold in my creations so that they are the most effective in showing God’s glory.
