The barometer of creativity is limited by what you perceive to be the best. The choice to be creative is never-ending. 

A fresh perspective is required to unleash unrealized potential. Creative wisdom is often found when we agree to do what God ordained in this life.

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28

Sometimes, your creative interests come at the cost of struggle. Even the best things you enjoy doing come at the cost of being undervalued.

A good tennis player stops playing when there’s no drive to push past the pain of financial burden, physical stress, or lack of support.

The connection between creativity and the pursuit of your interest is linked to the purpose of being persistent, even when you do not yet see the desired outcome.

Sometimes the very thing that you have stopped pursuing because of limited resources is the thing that should fuel your purpose. 

Some of the best tennis players are the ones who never dared to compete with the best in the game. The next Novak Djokovic is probably not competing with the very best. 

Fear grips a dream before it materializes. The very thing that could bear fruit in your life is destroyed before it sprouts. 

Small decisions make a person. Inconsequential decisions make life worthwhile as everything counts towards the moments seen on big stages. 

To be the best, you have to make decisions that are not easy. For example, growth in your life is seen in the family you chose to have when everything was going too well.

If you love playing tennis, but never pursue it at the highest level, no one will know how good you are as a tennis player. 

Doing life halfheartedly is a mistake that yields no abundance. If being the best tennis player is everything to you, you will most likely fail. Dominance in the sport comes with knowing that the sport is not everything.   

However, dominance comes from yielding to the Creator about the direction that your life should go. Being the best in the place of your interest comes from being in the right position in your spiritual mind.

“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;” Ephesians 4:23

This poem reminds us that we should never stop the pursuit of creating even if we feel undervalued, invisible, or unknown.

 Creative Pursuit 

The limitless pool of wonder

that knows no end from the beginning.

At the starting point, I see God.

Creative God existed in a perfect creation 

like a three-fold cord in blissful harmony.

Until the drizzle of spark pointed to

the creation of new life in their own 

image.

God, is the everlasting star of the creative process.

Without God, nothing starts in us.

Life swells up to draw from nothing.

The sparse bread and limitations we have today

point to greater things we will see tomorrow

to make our lives better than yesterday.

In the midst of it all God is still God.

The race of creation never stops.

Lights on, mic check, cue the music,

get ready to start in one, two, three.

Perfect formation at the starting line.

The midway position might get bumpy.

But the pursuit to create never stops.

There’s no finish line until God says, 

‘It’s the end of it all’.