It Matters

-An exclusive excerpt from Allen’s new book-

People pursue and protect what matters.

If an important relationship was unraveling, we’d do our best to restore it. If we couldn’t find a valuable piece of jewelry, we’d turn the house upside down to recover it. If we lost our voice, we’d try every remedy to regain it.

God also pursues and protects what matters. Many of Jesus’ parables reveal the priority of finding what’s been lost—whether a coin, a sheep, or a son.

What about our lost creativity?

When our creativity falters, why doesn’t it carry the same urgency?

Why do we give it a back seat to other issues? Why do we adapt so quickly to the partial in this arena?

Creativity clearly matters to God. In the first sentence of Genesis, God is creating. It’s not a secondary activity but the primal catalyst that brought galaxies, sunflowers, oceans, sheepdogs, and us into being. Of all the ways God could have introduced himself to us, he chooses for us to know him first as Creator and Father. He doesn’t just make things, he made us. And then he invites us, as his sons and daughters, to make things with him—through who we are and what we do.

The Creator of everything infused us with his creativity. Yet this essential part of our being is glitching. It is out of alignment. When our vehicles need an alignment, we don’t repave the highway. We realign our tires. If our back goes out of alignment, we don’t expect the world to adjust. We go after the root cause within our own spine, muscles, and nerves.

When our creativity is out of alignment, we tend to focus on external issues like a perceived scarcity of time, resources, or credentials. This causes us to blame others or even God. While external factors may play a role, the root cause is internal. We can’t change the world, but we can fix what’s going on within us. Rather than resign, we can realign our creativity—if we will take it as seriously as any other aspect of our lives that has been compromised. As we pursue this, we can overcome our glitch, get unstuck, find our groove, and create with God in new ways. It matters immensely.

God can reawaken and restore your creativity. Will you join him on that mission?

(From The Creativity Glitch: How to Stop Being Stuck, Find Your Groove, & Create with God. Copyright © 2026 Allen Arnold.)

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