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HOW TO BEAD A ROGUE ELEPHANT The Musings Of A Jewelry Designer:
Creativity
Create, Create, Create
In the beginning, and you know how it goes, created the heavens and the earth. Create. In the first section of Genesis, the word create gets used over and over and over again, as if, not only to emphasize its importance, but to marvel at the concept. A beautiful universe is created. Humankind is created. Animals are created. There’s a flood and a re-creation. Create, create, create.
There are two Hebrew words used in Genesis which hold the idea of create within them: bara, meaning to create, and asah, meaning to make or do. They are used interchangeably. Sometimes reserved to represent God and supernatural powers. Other times to represent the impacts of people creating things and what happens to these things over time. The meaning of one word is not more important than the meaning of the other. God-people. People-God.
And I think those folks who compiled the various stories into the Bible tried to interrelate the idea of a God with the power to create with the idea of humans having the power to create. Create, create, create. As if they kept writing and writing and writing the words over and over again in an attempt to clarify and come to grips with for themselves what the awesome power of creation was inside themselves, and…
