What is a creativity essential? Play. What happens in play that enables us to create and to become more fully human?

What is the difference between fruitfulness and productivity? In a post industrial world, what can we learn from the way things grow and naturally produce fruit that might challenge the way we define and measure faithfulness in the Kingdom of God?

What does it mean to be fruitful? How does fruit form?

We can learn a great deal from studying the way creation forms fruit in the natural order.

Perhaps, with the encouragement of Jesus, maybe we need to spend a little time “considering the lilies.”

What do we learn about the way God forms us through the way He formed creation in the beginning? What does it say about us that God brings together different forms to create something beautiful? Maybe it’s your difference that makes a difference.

Chaos, formless, void, desolation. This was where creation began. It was from this place that God created new life. What does this tell us about the way God’s creative process?

What do we learn about becoming the new creation by the way God first created the world? Uncovering principles from the created order for our formation.

What did I learn from quarantine about the refiner’s fire of motherhood?

What grows in us before we receive the reward of the harvest? Who are we becoming in times of adversity? When we go through difficult times, we often don’t know what this whole thing is about. It’s not until breakthrough that we can look back and see who we have become along the way.

Where does breakthrough come from? How do we emerge from seasons of waiting and winter to unfold into who we were made to be?

What does the natural world teach us about hope? When our hopes are fulfilled, we find that at the end of the journey, the harvest is reaped not just in the soil of our circumstances, but in what grows in our hearts along the way.

What does God do in seasons of waiting? What grows in us and in the soil between sowing and reaping? Between death and resurrection?

A reminder for those of us who feel stretched in this season. We are dust, and if we let it - it can be a gift.

How do we wait for the dawn? What does it look like to stay present to God and ourselves in the waiting?

In these days of darkness, what does it mean to wait for the light. How does God expose and illuminate the darkness with himself?

In these days of darkness, what does it mean to wait for the light. How does God expose and illuminate the darkness with himself?

How well do we really see in the midst of a crisis? When we acknowledge the limits of our own perception in lament, it frees us to see God’s perspective and leads us to surrender and worship.

How naming our narriative can get us out of fear and shame based thinking. Let’s move past seeing villains and villains and search for more complex and nuanced story.

We surrender to the God who makes things grow when we surrender to Him in lament. There are two different types of lament in Scripture: individual and communal.

In this season of individual and communal suffering, we are going to need to learn how to do both if we are to become the people He has created us to be. We need to grieve both our individual losses and those of our broken world.

What does it mean to “sow in tears” as Psalm 126 suggests? How do we enter into petition in the middle - in the “not yet?” The desert places where we long for rain?

What is the antidote to fight or flight reactivity? How can lament help us spiritually and productively engage our creativity in the midst of loss and disappointment?