I remember as a child walking with my mother through a parking lot from our car to the department store entrance. My mother is a fairly tall and regal woman. She would walk briskly with long strides. As a child I had a hard time keeping up with her when if I would walk. I would have to run along side my mother or trot quicky just to keep up. To this day she still seems to walk too fast for me.

As one believer and creative person to another, I have so far found that God’s highest and dearest interest as my Creator is to save me fully and for me to know Him. He puts that first and He is willng to interupt the processes of my creativity to have it. Second, anything of God that I have vision for or the ability to create I do not own. He owns all of His ideas including the one He had when He made me. He is always working/creating way far ahead of my process while simply keeping watch of me to make sure that I am still following. He is the Creator bringing His visions to fruition when we don’t even realize it.

I appreciate what you say here about being in the world and being sensitive to the emergent, I try to be and I think that I am, yet at all times the same never changing desire of God’s for me know Him more beckons. I guess what I am trying to say here is that if at the completion our creating if we gotten to know Him more,and we are being saved we’ve kept in step with the great intention and vision of our Creator and there in fact may lie the fruit in our reality. If we have not gotten to know Him more….?

By the way, this was cool that you said, “Germination requires shifting the location of our listening from within the organism we serve to the future which is embedded at the junction of our presence, our imagination and God’s best possible future.”