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God's Creative Process
In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth.
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Now the earth
was
formless and empty,
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darkness was over
the
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and the Process of God
was hovering over the waters.
(Genesis 1:1)
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And when
God’s Creative Process
was discovered by others, they said:
This music
of this opera {Madame Butterfly} was dictated to me by God;
I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the
public.
Giacomo Puccini
I
myself do nothing. The Holy Process accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
The
position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrain
Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.
Johannes Brahms
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
Imagine
God’s Creative Process
holding a lump of clay…
Forming his/her own image, the image of
God,
creating the sensory capacities
to
see, hear, feel,
smell, taste, and sense the unknown.
Evolving the need to recall stories
from the past,
conveying these messages
into the
future.
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Thereby
giving:
the descendants of Adam and Eve the knowledge
of the Original Sin.
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Then
God’s Creative Process
began to evolve within us . . .
the capacity to use a series of lines to preserve forever the
messages in these spoken words . . .
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O my people, hear my teaching;
Listen to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in parables.
I will utter hidden things, things from old –
What we have heard and know,
What our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children;
We will tell the next generation
The praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psalm
78: 1-4 |
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of
violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on
earth had corrupted their ways.
So God said to Noah. “I am going to put an end to all people, for
the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going
to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress
wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out."
Genesis 6:11-15
Imagine
God’s Creative Process . . .
Creating a son who possessed the resourcefulness to
improvise stories and parables for any situation, 
This is what the kingdom of God is like. A
man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up,
the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil
produces grain – first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the
head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the
harvest has come. (Mark 4:26)
and spontaneously formed immediate and appropriate verbal responses to anyone
who challenged him.
You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the
Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?
Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for
eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?
Imagine
God’s Creative Process . .
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Collaborating with Hildegard of
Bingen (1098-1179), to create visionary writings and major theological works.
An unbelievable woman, she was consulted by and advised bishops, popes, and
kings at a time when women’s opinions were not accepted.
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And it came to pass
... when I was 42 years and 7 months old, that the heavens were opened
and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire
brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not
burning but warming... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of
expositions of the books... |
But although I heard and saw these things,
because of doubt and low opinion of myself and because of diverse sayings of
men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but
out of humility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of
sickness.
Imagine
God’s Creative Process . . .
Meeting with Francis of Assisi to produce and stage a
live recreation of the Nativity.
It happened in the third year
before his death, that in order to excite the inhabitants of Grecio to
commemorate the nativity of the Infant Jesus with great devotion, [St. Francis]
determined to keep it with all possible solemnity; and lest he should be accused
of lightness or novelty, he asked and obtained the permission of the sovereign
Pontiff. Then he prepared a manger, and brought hay, and an ox and an ass to the
place appointed.
The brethren were summoned, the people ran
together, the forest resounded with their voices, and that venerable night was
made glorious by many and brilliant lights and sonorous psalms of praise. The
man of God [St. Francis] stood before the manger, full of devotion and piety,
bathed in tears and radiant with joy;… St. Bonaventure (d. 1274)
Imagine
God’s Creative Process
. . .
Supporting Martin Luther as he questioned the philosophy of the church and created his Theses.
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Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain
reason - I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have
contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot
and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor
safe. God help me. Amen.
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Imagine
God’s Creative Process . . .
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Assisting Michelangelo for four short years
as he lay on his back on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel … |
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creating the living energy portrayed in twenty huge panels containing
over four hundred (bigger than live size) figures portraying many biblical
stories.
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Imagine
God’s Creative Process . .
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Touching the thoughts
and words of this withdrawn Victorian lady. Rarely leaving her home and
almost never talking with anyone other than her family, she was gifted with
beautiful and sensitive word images of life, death, and nature.
Because I
could not stop for Death--
He kindly stopped for me--
The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
and Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Imagine
God’s Creative Process . .
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Assisting the genius of Albert Einstein as he
searched for a new understanding of life through the concept of ENERGY
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The
human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little
child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with
books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have
written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand
the languages in which they are written. |
But the child notes a definite plan in the
arrangement of the books … a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but
only dimly suspects. (Einstein)
Martin Buber said: “Einstein burst forth,
revealingly. ‘What we (and by this “we” he meant we physicists) strive for is
just to draw His lines after Him’.”
Imagine
God’s Creative Process . . .
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forming the life of a young boy (Martin
Luther King Jr.), the son of a Baptist minister and a school teacher, who
would grow to become an all time champion of individual rights simply
through the power of his voice and his non-violent actions.
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I have a dream,
…let freedom ring! And when this
happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up
that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of
the old Negro Processual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we
are free at last."
Imagine enhancing
God’s Creative Process
. . .
in YOU & your CHURCH.
What will
YOUR
creation be?
Please contact us so we can explore how
God’s Creative Process
can enhance you and
your church.
Anne W. Wakenhut, MA, Cert. Music
Practitioner
Gary W. Wakenhut, MA, Cert. Music Practitioner
Email:
share@collectingconsort.com
7363 W. Edgar Rd.
Lakeview, MI 48850
989-352-6996
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