Writer’s Mind

Life is not perfect. Things very rarely come together cohesively on their own. Our personal experiences and endeavors are riddled with chaos. Life is messy to be sure!

I don’t like that. This part of reality is not easy for me to accept. I like for everything to make sense. Or at least for me to be able to see some clear semblance of every matters’ purpose. I’d rather not have to search for those answers. Discovering anything’s purpose is a mystery I could do without.

Just tell me what makes sense! Show me the plan! It doesn’t have to be this difficult! Wouldn’t it be better if the whole story was already written down for us?

I believe it’s this way of thinking that marks the mind of a writer. For the writer, myself included, every word, phrase, and even punctuation has a purpose. The entirety of every piece that’s written must be cohesive at every point or it’s incomplete. The content, tone, and message have to match properly in order to evoke the intended effect.

For me, this writing process is the best way of making sense of things. Something nearly impossible to achieve in the chaos of raw, unscripted life or live, unedited video. While writing I get to fully explore my thoughts and am able to control the finished product. I can edit and re-edit the text until what I write says exactly what I’m feeling. What I write is not presented if I don’t find it to be perfectly to my liking. Perfect is the best!

Unfortunately perfection is only ever possible when I’m writing. At least for now. In a broken world, perfect does not happen. Perfect was the Creator’s intention, but a fall was inevitable and necessary for that perfection to be properly appreciated. And the world now groans for the return of this perfect perfection. As we wait, all we can do is create in preparation.

Man’s proclivity to create, an imminent result of being made in the Creator’s image, is the representation of our spirit’s groaning. We long to create a better world with everything we craft. A desire ingrained in us by the Author of our existence. Deep inside we know it was supposed to be another way. We know that you and I are meant for so much more than survival. So rather than work to become the fittest to survive, we instinctively use the creativity that reveals a creative God to work toward the redemption of all things. That’s how the Kingdom of God works.

You may not be a writer or have a writer’s mind like me, but you have the ability to create something. You have the opportunity to aim for redemption. And, even if you haven’t discovered it yet, you certainly have a passion to take part! So what are you creating? What will you create?

“For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:20-23