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One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. Psalm 27:4
One thing I hate about the industry of marketing is the underlying tactics and strategies. Well, actually seeing them time after time. It’s like I sense a grenade going off.
It’s all because of a man named David Ogilvy who learned about top secret information from the government on psychological warfare. He took that material and used it in advertising. He made a boat-load of money off of his techniques that are taught by some colleges and exploited wildly in our culture. You may wonder why our culture has issues but I do not.
The gist is that there are words and images and phrases and psychological mentalities that can be packaged to lead people to desire and buy products. Yes, it’s manipulation of emotions. It is subtle and devious just like Satan. And it works.
I know how to use those weapons of trigger words and provocations but I’m like someone who has a black belt in karate. I know those methods but don’t use them.
I do what I do because I love the beauty and creativity of words. I like to string them together like a beautiful necklace. Most people who write also love to read but they don’t read just any old thing because there is a lot of boring writing out there.
I didn’t always love writing though I have always had a temperament for it. I found I also have a gifting and anointing for writing that makes me good at it. That took time but the process has been fun.
I began to learn about poetry and creative writing after college. That’s when my life changed. I dug into a depth mine with all sorts of hidden treasures that I was never aware of. It was much better than when that archeologist discovered King Tut’s tomb. I tapped into the depths of God.
It all started with God who gave me some really intriguing dreams. I shared my dreams with the leaders of my church and they must’ve thought I knew something about poetry because one of the elders was a creative writing professor.
All I did was concretely describe scene-by-scene the elements of those dreams and it came out poetically. It turns out that God is a poet and poetry wasn’t a human concept after all. He came up with this deeper way of communication that he often uses through the prophets because it's a heart language.
David Pawson says that the book of Jeremiah has areas that are written poetically and other ares written in prose. He explains that when God spoke poetically it is from His heart and when he spoke in prose it was from His mind.
The elders interpreted my dreams and that’s one way that I learned. The other way was that God had me learn by studying poetry.
I remember reading the book Peace like a River. As far as fiction goes, there is not a more Divinely inspired book and many famous Christian writers recommend reading that book. It is surprising because it is clearly a Charismatic book with one setting at a church with people getting slain in the Spirit. I am surprised it is considered and American classic.
It is a beautiful story, but the way Leif Enger put each word and each sentence and each paragraph and actually the whole story together is prophetic, poetic and epic. Nobody can make a story that beautiful from every angle. God had to have his hand in it.
I realize there will never be those who grasp the beauty of creative writing. It is not in their call nor is the veil removed from their eyes on this form of beauty. I was blind to it for half of my life. It is not their area or lane or ministry or understanding or wooing from God. That’s fine. They have their thing with God that makes their heart sing.
I was reading the poem by E. E. Cummings called somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond and realized that there are things to notice that are much deeper than the cliché symbols such as a man giving a rose to a woman he loves. Those things are the delicate, the vulnerable, the subtle, the quirky, the unspeakably deep moments that only artists notice and capture using select words or stories or paintings or vocal expressions or dance.
Those textures and tones and emotions are distinct and trigger something deep within us, but unlike Mr. Ogilvy’s ways, those things are the things that make life meaningful and beautiful and worthwhile. Ogilvy’s ways can stop our breath in a jarring way but God’s poetic ways take our breath away in a sweet way.
You may want to live a practical life with only food, clothing and shelter with God but I want to live a poetic life with the noticing of beautiful moments. I desire to drink from the deep life in God expressed through art.
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