tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12629468.post124632836156198146..comments2023-05-12T04:28:28.504-05:00Comments on Daily Bread: Thoughts on "Co-creation"Prior Peter, OSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955043134006446842noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12629468.post-86545063122567985542008-08-27T12:41:00.000-05:002008-08-27T12:41:00.000-05:00A thought that has always struck me about creativi...A thought that has always struck me about creativity came from (for me) Esther de Waal in <I>Seeking God</I> when she posited that creativity can only occur within limitation (i.e. enclosure). <BR/><BR/>The limitations of a musical instrument, a players ability, the range of tones discernible by the human ear--these are the limitations placed on music. Outside of these, the music ceases to be exist. Creativity stops.<BR/><BR/>God, who is limitless, can only be discerned within the context of creation--thus, to be known He has to create. To be intimately known, He had to become Incarnate.<BR/><BR/>Pure, (truly) limitless, creativity is a misnomer. That being the case, to think that we can create something "new" is hubris. The best we can do in our creativity is to remind others of something long forgotten.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551331996392135589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12629468.post-38644247733957968372008-08-26T23:42:00.000-05:002008-08-26T23:42:00.000-05:00You have done a great job here discussing our isol...You have done a great job here discussing our isolated islands of mind in which we sometimes believe. These islands are untruth. Does each human have to believe that life restarts again with her? Can the Deceiver just get out of the way and let us see the Light? Why is that so difficult? I have to be so vigilant. If I keep my identity as belonging to God in the front of my mind, I get off that island and see how we are all the same, because our differences are like a flourish on a deeper truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12629468.post-53810743026847394012008-08-26T07:51:00.000-05:002008-08-26T07:51:00.000-05:00A core element of your posting is the desire that ...A core element of your posting is the desire that others somehow share the same experience or emotion or idea that was in your mind when you created the sound. For this to occur, there has to be a shared system of symbols or at least neural responses, and the created sound has to correspond to that reality - else the hearer will not receive what you intended to send.<BR/> <BR/>We've been reading about the importance and working of this underlying correspondence between God's created reality - and specifically what He created us to be and how - in <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773534040?ie=UTF8&tag=monasmusin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0773534040" REL="nofollow">Is It Possible to Live This Way?: An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence: Faith</A>. The idea that one could create something that is outside of this correspondence is, indeed, an idea of the Deceiver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12629468.post-88238207245444319252008-08-25T09:17:00.000-05:002008-08-25T09:17:00.000-05:00Quite!Quite!Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11951438226869811270noreply@blogger.com