The Imagination Relief Valve

How do artists make culture?

We don’t create from nothing.

We are all born intaking the expressions of the world around us. That activity of intaking leads to the construction of our imagination, or, our internal image world.

From this intaking, our imaginations we get busy with our own making.

From that activity of making, something bursts forth in the form of a artifact, an expression of some kind.

Words, songs, dance, hugs, confrontation, sermon ideas, color selections, etc.

The cycle continues. Once we express something into the world, it exists for others to intake.

Under Christ's authority, artists should be released to make and express themselves. Jesus has certain parameters for local church contexts, but we exist in other spaces in the world where we can make art in multiple outlets.

If you’re feeling like there is a metaphorical ceiling for your creative acts, perhaps you are looking for a world place to express them.

Where are the spaces in your life to offer your art as a service that relieves; that lifts burdens?