Artists come up against this block again and again. They bang their heads against their own judgements, trying to get past judging so that they can simply let go and create. The minute we, as creative people, start looking at our work with a judgemental eye, we stop creating. It's a common cause of artists' block.

The more we let go of deciding which parts of our work is good and which is damndable, the more we free up our creativity.

Enter, God. God as creator. God is bursting with creativity. The universe explodes with it. Nature strains at the seams. Even the seemingly destructive forces are precursors to more creativity. A forest fire clears the earth for new plants to take root. Earthquakes reshape the landscape into new environments.

As I look around the world and into people's minds and hearts, it's clear that God is constantly creating, overflowing with it. If there was anything I would say God can't do, it would be, God can't stop creating. It defines Gods very being.

How then, can this co-exist in a judgemental mind? It is said we are created in God's image. Reflecting on that image, we see the creative process and how it works - and how it doesn't work. How can God dam up creativity by taking time out to judge it? 'This part of my work is good. This part is crap.'

Making us in God's own image imbued us with God's own creativity and we begin to multiply God's creative power, amplifying it by being similarly creative forces.

Human beings can't help but create. In every moment of every day, we are in creating something of our selves, our lives, our circumstances. Each thought leads to words and actions that create the world around us. Everything we think about creates us into being more of one kind of person and less of another. As we pick and chose what to do and what to focus on, we cultivate a bubble around ourselves that becomes our own personal universe. In doing this, we create a world within a world.

One way we do this is by choices. We pick and chose what we want, what we don't want, what we will do, what we will say, what we think. Creativity is a processes of picking and choosing. In those decisions, we define the nature of the thing we are creating.

Picking and choosing can look like judgement. It often becomes distorted into judgement. But what it actually is, is a tool for defining what the thing we're creating is. Choice allows definition, which creates something into being. 'I am this, not this.' 'You will be this, not that.' That is choice.

Our power of choice, our ability to choose, is not in us so God can damn us for our choices. It's there so we can share in the act of creation, so we can amplify the very essence of God's deepest nature.