I was just in a meeting for a collaborative creative project and ran into an old school friend I hadn't seen in many months. He asked if I was working and I said no. This friend was in a position to offer me a small temporary job which, through God's providence, should be able to hold me over for a small period of time.
God works in mysterious ways and He alone perfectly knows what we most need at any given moment. I thank God for this opportunity to work and am happy to be working on this new creative endeavor!
Back to the collaboration part though: I am thinking back to Genesis where God says, " it is not good for man to be alone". Why is that? Because man is made in the image and likeness of God. And God is a Trinity of persons. Man, by his nature, desires to be close to first God and then other people.
In collaborating, our own creativity is enhanced and made productive by joining in a dynamic relationship with our collaborators. The creative spirit of a project is shaped in a multi-fueled fire and becomes more unified as many voices meld into one new whole project.
That's not to say there are not often bad collaborations. Some projects falter and fail as personalities and ideas clash. But, at it's core, collaboration is a good that God gives us as a responsibility and a gift. The purpose of our collaboration,Ike a creative endeavors, should be self giving. An apt analogy may be the love of a husband and wife which is a total gift of self that yields new life.
If the point if collaboration is selfish it will fail. Much like the Tower of Babel which was man uniting to build themselves up, literally hoping to reach heaven by pride. That prideful effort collapsed as the tower did and the result was a division of men forevermore until they were again untied under one language by the power of the ultimate Creator in the Holy Spirit.
So I thank God for collaboration and the ability to work!
Until tomorrow,
good night and God bless
~OneCatholicGuy
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