In this third message of our Drawn In series, we reflect on how creativity always involves risk. To create is to step into the unknown, to try something that may not work, and to trust that love will hold us even if it doesn’t go as planned. God’s own love is a daring act of risk, as we see in the prophet Hosea—a love that risks rejection, heartbreak, and disappointment, and yet keeps reaching out with steadfast devotion. Creativity, then, is not safe or comfortable, but it is the very heart of God’s way with the world.
Jesus’ parable of the talents reminds us that burying our gifts out of fear is not what God desires. The call is to risk investing ourselves fully—our ideas, our voices, our time, our compassion—for the sake of God’s kingdom of love and justice. To be drawn into God’s creativity is to embrace holy risk: trusting that when we put our lives into circulation, God multiplies them in ways we cannot imagine.
