Earthquakes and thunderstorms inspire awe and fear. In many cultures these “expressions” were justified quite naturally as acts of a supreme deity. The underlying worldview justified a deep involvement of deity and nature.
In the rationalization of our creative processes through the Enlightenment and its spread via colonialism and globalizing influences, rational cognitive intellectual bias became a dominant “preferred” ideology. The intrinsic and mysterious connection between natural occurrences and expressions of deity became less emphasized. In many places today the nature-deity connection is brushed off as irrational and thereby irrelevant for our day-to-day purposes. In other instances, the creator god is either blamed or praised for sudden or unexplainable natural occurrences.
The point here however is that it is through nature that we can experience the nature of the creator. If by the logic of creativity we understand the deep connection between the creator and created product and process, then we may recognize the deep connection between natural occurrences as creative expressions and the creator. As with humans, there is sometimes no rational explanation for why things turn out in certain ways especially when it comes to justifying the outcomes of natural occurrences.
Consider,
Let’s give ourselves permission to contemplate on the nature of the creator as we experience creation. We experience wonder and awe through the majesty of the mountains and the images of galaxies far away. We also experience fear and terror at the sight of thunderstorms and earthquakes. We try and rationalize how something so awesome can also be a vehicle for so much pain and suffering.
But then if we choose we can also know and rest in the understanding of the good nature of the creator who is in charge of the creative/creation process and who is ultimately responsible for bringing something good out of such process in accord with the creator’s own good nature and purpose.
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