when the cold is good

I went up to Midway last week to see these amazing ice sculptures and was in awe once again at the creativity of people. There really is no limit to what people can imagine. I thought they must have put some kind of blueing in the water so that when it froze it would have the pure crisp blue color but when I talked to the man who created these structures (known as an icicle connoisseur) he said nothing was added. The blue color naturally appeared because of the molecular structure of the ice and snow. That was even more impressive....but then the Lord is always the master artist.

Creativity can come in so many forms. Each day at school I have a little girl who brings me some sort of picture she has created for me and one day she had folded up construction paper and used yards of tape to make me 'plates'. She was so proud of her masterpieces and offered to show me how to make them.

Years ago I learned the formula C=K+I-E ....which stands for:
Creativity = Knowledge + imagination - evaluation.

I embraced that thought immediately. Kids are so creative because they don't get caught up in the evaluation, the judgment part and let their imaginations go unbridled. "Of course it's wonderful....I made it!!"

Ahhh...should we not all be like children and see the fairies in the garden and hear their songs sing us to sleep.