I wanted a place to exercise creativity, find connection, and record each season. When thinking about my vision for this space, I knew I wanted it to be positive and real. While I want to share my heart and be true to reality, I want to purposefully view each day through a lens of positivity. 

Psalm 118:24 says, “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Even on the worst of days, we can hold tight to the promise that the Lord created it. He knew what it would hold long before we lived it. Nothing took Him by surprise. 

After going through a dark season, I really clung to this simple truth. This verse has stuck with me probably due to the catchy song that I learned from home or Sunday school. God tells us to rejoice, even when he knows what our hard days will hold. 

Another verse that has really helped me is Philippians 4:8, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. God tells us to dwell on the good. I want this space to be a place of dwelling on the good. 

For a time, I thought that the only things that mattered were things that had an eternal impact. I think this is a clever tactic of Satan’s. Convince someone that nothing really matters aside from a salvation conversation. This keeps the person from using their gifts and makes their world very small and self-centered.

But God used His Word and the people that He placed in my life to bring me out of this deep pit. This mental loop that had me depressed and paralyzed no longer owns me. God used one of his most foundational truths to pull me out with a Bible verse song I have probably known since I was two: He created each day. He created us to live in communion with Him in a perfect garden where we lacked nothing. Since we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory (Romans 3:23), He sent His perfect son to die for us to save us from our sins so that we could live in eternity with Him. Perhaps my daily life isn’t frivolous. Maybe days that seem mundane and like there could be nothing in it with eternal value aren’t wasteful. What if making a yummy recipe and reading a good book isn’t pointless? The desire to make things beautiful might just be a reminder of our inkling for heaven and proof of the perfect garden that was to be our home. 

This was a revelation that changed everything for me. God has used books to minister to me. God says, “Taste and see”. He created tiny tastebuds on our tongues not just for nothing! But for us to actually taste and enjoy things. God has displayed His incredible creativity in every sunset and landscape and human on earth. Clearly, creativity and beauty matter to Him as well. 

I could sit in my house and tell myself that nothing outside of leading someone to Christ matters. Or I could dwell on the things that are good. Rejoice every day. Use the gifts that God has given me. Enjoy creativity. And maybe God will use these things to impact His kingdom for eternity. Nothing is wasted with God. 

Photo: Taken in Hergiswil, Switzerland