Don't Rain on My Parade!

Don't Rain on My Parade!

You are daydreaming and thinking and using your imagination and you come up with this fabulous idea.  It will solve so many problems.  It will benefit so many people.  Maybe it will just be really cool!  But, you know - absolutely without a doubt - it is a good idea.  Then you share the idea with someone else only to have that person say, "You can't do that!" "It will never work!" "That's dumb!"  Not only have they rained on your parade - it is now pouring -- buckets.  Those words have pelted your idea and turned it into the biggest mud puddle you have ever seen.  So what do you do?  Typically, if you are like most folks, you let that great, fabulous idea sink into the muck and mire of that mud puddle, never to be spoken of or thought of again. 

The inventor of the Knomo Drop & Go Bag had an idea - a parade - if you will.  Let me ask you this...How many times has your cell phone battery died when you most needed the cell phone and you were not in a location where you could recharge the battery?  It's happened to me plenty of times.  I am pretty sure it happened to the inventor of the Knomo Drop & Go Bag plenty of times too!  The Knomo Drop & Go Bag has a built in cell phone charger.  It is touted as the first in-bag charging device.  What a great idea!   A purse with a built in phone charger - now that is cool.  An amazing parade, wouldn't you say?  This was a creative way to solve a problem, benefit tons of people with an added bonus...it is also really cool. 

Here's the point.  God gives each one of us creativity genes - some more than others, but none the less, think about it, we are created in His image.  I can't think of anyone more creative than The Creator, can you? What comes out of your creativity no one else can do.  Your sense of creativity is yours alone.  Find what you love or are passionate about and do something creative with it.  The love of that "thing"- whatever it is - was put there by The Creator.  That creative "idea" - whatever it is - was put in your head by The Creator.  So, I repeat... do something creative with it. Write that book.  Paint that picture.  Build that building.  Design that invention.  Start that program.  Just do it!  Start now.  But, don't let anyone rain on your parade.  It is not their parade to rain on. 
 

 "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, to be like us..." Genesis 1:26a

" I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it well." Psalm 139:14

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 1Thess.5:11