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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Have you ever realized that truth leaves very little to no room for creativity? Likewise, when someone tells you to 'be creative,' the last thing that comes to your mind is telling the truth. How does that shape your view on creativity and truth?
Have you ever realized that truth leaves very little to no room for creativity? Likewise, when someone tells you to 'be creative,' the last thing that comes to your mind is telling the truth. How does that shape your view on creativity and truth?
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I have thought something like this before. But God has been showing me things recently that bring me to the conclusion that that is not true. Just as there are both dull and riveting ways to tell the same fiction story, there are both bland and creative ways to tell the truth. You see, in most cases truth is so delightfully complex that it takes creativity to see what is important to emphasize at what moment.
ReplyDeleteI guess this depends on what situation you are applying this to. If someone asks you what you did today, you could tell them all sorts of fanciful tales about what you wish you had done, but you can only tell one story that would be true, as far as a sequence of events goes. However, put that story in writing, and you can use all sorts of creativity in putting it together. What do you tell? What do you leave out? What words do you use so that your reader feels as if they had been there? One writing book I read said that creativity is making choices -- purposefully choosing one thing instead of another.
On the other hand, when it comes to spiritual truth, such as the character of God, there is infinite room for creativity! How will you paint a picture so that the viewer sees the beauty of God's creation? How will you arrange a love story so that we see, shining through the events, the truth of what love is?
If we consciously aim our creativity toward truth, it is not a limiting decision. We are, in a sense, participating in that which is *real*, that which does exist, that which does have meaning. Our creativity means so much more because we partake of that which will always remain.
Sorry for the ginormous comment, but this subject has been very much on my mind of late.