Now Visible

Whenever a blog is written, it comes at the expense of blank white paper. I read somewhere some time ago that creative work is about bringing into view something which has been invisible.  What the writer was offering for consideration is the possibility that what becomes seen has always been there.  It has only been invisible until the moment creativity is given freedom to do its work.  I would like to think this is true of writing.  It is certainly true of great pieces of sculpture which remind us of the creative genius of those who see a huge piece of stone like the rest us, but unlike us, something more.   

The Great Creator and Master Artist brought each one of us into being.  The first chapter of the book of Genesis speaks of that which had not yet been seen being brought from the invisible realm into the visible one.  It was in such a moment of divine creativity that "God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness..."  (Genesis 1:26).  In the 139th Psalm the Sacred Word says, "In Your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed."  (vs. 16). Another similar word is found in Jeremiah 1:5 where we hear the Word of God being spoken to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you."  Is it not true that we were at one time "not yet seen" but now truly revealed?   

Of course, all of these words of Holy Scripture bring additional light to one of the great mysteries of the creative power of God.  We find it it in I Corinthians 5:17 where we read, "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new."  Something never before seen comes into being when we each say "Yes" to Christ and open our heart for Him to do a work of bringing into existence someone who has never existed until that moment.  Hebrews 11:3 reads, "...so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible."  Is this not what the power of God does in us through the work of salvation?  The unseen in us becomes visible...finally and at last!  God does not see us as we see ourselves, or as others see us, but as He created us to be in that moment of beginning long ago.