A Worthy Theme for a Worthy Story

All week I've been waiting for tonight - a space in time void of noise and other distractions - to compose a simple short story, the final assignment for my Creative Writing class. But tonight has thus far been a failure in both creativity and writing. I've been sitting here for two hours now, and all that I've been able to squeeze out is a tiny puddle of tearfully boring sentences that reeks worse than a cesspool. Some Drano is in order because I swear that my brain is clogged!

Whenever I used to feel like this - malnourished of creativity and drained of passion - I would get into awful reflective moods. Convinced that silence is the most deafening sound, the worst kind of tyranny, I'd eagerly invite the chaos of yesterday for the mere sake of disrupting the melancholy of today.

In great desperation, I tried this trick tonight, but it failed to clear the imaginative pipes. Instead, I pondered my inability to remember chaos, then realized it's because there is no such thing. Duh, God knows what he's doing. But what about excitement? An exciting memory ought to inspire a song. Yet all I hear is silence.

So here I am, now in even greater desperation, turning to YOU, God. You inspire life. Certainly you will inspire me!

God, what inspired YOU to write the human story? What inspires you to continue creating?

Do you ever get writer's block?

Do you ever need to pace the floor the of heaven from time to time, like how writers in movies pace the floors of their bedrooms?

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I must have been annoying him with these stupid questions because he SPOKE, thus ending for him my torturous jabbing, and thus ending for me the torturous silence. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!  (I just figured out that he's more likely to speak if you talk his ear off!)

Anyway, the key to writing a story, he said, is to first decide upon a theme. The main idea sets every detail. If the theme is worthy, then the plot, the characters, the setting, EVERYTHING, will naturally weave into a worthy story.

I still don't have anything to turn in for my English class, but I DO have a story. It was written by God. :)

By God's grace we are worthy characters in his story, and we are woven together by one theme - one purpose.  

And God's purpose is....?  

I learned from the Perspectives Course that it is the Call of Abram:

1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you." 

This is what the Perspectives workbook says about his purpose: "For His glory in global worship, God purposes to redeem a people from every people, and to rule a kingdom over all kingdoms."  Or more parsimoniously stated, "God's Ultimate Purpose: To draw loyal worship from every people, displaying His greater glory and manifesting His fullest love."

But I wonder if his purpose is even higher... too high for us to understand, furthermore summarize.  Besides, I doubt it's important that we know what his purpose is.

Perhaps it's more important that we have faith and trust his purpose without having to comprehend it.

Wouldn't you agree that the coolest part about being in God's story is that our purpose is his purpose?  I think that's all we really need to know.  :)