"When you feel the pain of bad experiences, creativity gives you the opportunity to turn that pain into gain."

A thought by John C Maxwell (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 130). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

God has created each one of us with the ability to be creative.  The problem is the cares and negatives of life seem to push it way down inside of us.  But it is in those bad experiences that our creativity can rise to the top and create a way out of those experiences.  Our problem is we stay in a hopeless state and rob ourselves of the potential answer.

Let me say it again, God has created each one of us with the ability to be creative.  Now it is in chaos that most new ideas come into existence.  John says, “The secret to doing that is to use the energy that comes from either adrenaline or anger and use it to solve problems and learn lessons.”  God gives us the ability to find the answer, to solve the problem.

He tells the story of a chicken farmer whose land was flooded each spring.  The water would get up into his chicken coops and the worst year he lost all of his chickens. After that happened he came with deep discouragement and despair to his wife and said, “What can I do?”  And his wife said, “Buy ducks.”  She had a creative answer.

There is an answer and it may be a very creative one that will become a defining moment in your life.  Don’t waste the bad experiences.  Turn your pain into gain.  Remember, Jesus is in the resurrection business and it might just be there inside of you.  Let your creativity run free.  Let it create an answer.

So what is God waiting on you to create with His help?