There is No Creativity Without Suffering
Creativity requires facing new ideas and new perspectives,
and transforming them into something new.
Hidden within this process is the universal experience of suffering.
And it does us no good to avoid suffering, to become embittered at suffering,
Or to claim Christians shouldn’t suffer because Jesus promised us no suffering.
Did Jesus ever promise a fear-free life? A stress-free life? An injury-free life?
No. He never did.
But there is something more beautiful and mysterious as we walk through suffering,
and create art out of that new growth, and dependence upon God.
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