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My Spirit hovered over the water, 48 x 42 inches, oil on panels with painting knives

This is a celebratory depiction of creation. The painting evolved in the conception stage from a mortal painting into a celestial angelic being flipping of a hat and having enormous jovial fun as things evolved.

I understand we can only imagine what must have happened when everything first began while never completely understanding. But can’t we think for a moment that he had a ton of fun? I like to take my interpretation of what I see God saying to me from His Word. I don’t care much for how many want to manipulate His good thoughts into a prison for others. I see Him more as a liberator. It seems to me that when he walked on this planet know one had any understanding of what he was doing. His thoughts were abstract to them. He talked about the unseen. Believing more than we see. Don’t be limited by what you see.

So what can we learn from God about creating? Can we learn anything at all from the guy that created the world, better everything? How can we relate it to our painting process? He must have had a method for creating.

I wonder what God thought in the beginning when he was creating the world? What was going through his head as His Spirit hovered over the water?  When everything we now understand that is around us was only a thought on His blank canvas. We are told that we are created in his likeness, what kind of creative fortitude do we enjoy? How far can this ability take us? Is this the Godlike quality we possess? Trying to make something out of nothing?

He had nothing to look at when he created the world. When we paint we have all creation to look at. Not a fair comparison. Can we can only imitate and then modify and change as our creative spirit allows us?

Please take this as food for thought while developing your next painting. What I can gather is, He had a seven-day plan. So organization must have been important. At each step He had something different to do that built on what was completed the previous day. At the end of each day He told us “it was good”, so He must have felt satisfaction and accomplishment about His creation as he went about his project. A vision and forethought must have been present since when it was completed he said, “it was finished”. You can’t have a completion if you don’t know what you are trying to complete or paint to. Could we assume that since His painting took six days to paint, that he then wanted to chill? We understand as painters that painting takes a lot out of us and it can be exhausting? So even God rested on the Seventh Day when his canvas was finished and whole.