PbyCj

So I don’t know what it is about sometimes not having the words to express what I’m experiencing. I was just thinking today—okay, disregard—but thank God for His protection. Seriously. That alone is major.

But I think it was in my last blog where I talked about being a daughter of the Creator. That phrase still gets me. Because God is… genius. Like, full-on genius. In all His creation, in every single detail. If you ever just stop and look at God—at what He’s created, how He’s designed things—you’ll see it. It’s amazing.

I remember when I first started taking my creative journey seriously. I went straight to the Book of Genesis. The way God created—He had a process. He would speak, check if it was good, and then call it a day. Over and over again: “Let there be,” then, “It was good,” and then boom, onto the next. And after He finished creating everything, He rested. He was like, “That’s it. I’m good.”

And I admired that. I still admire that. That creative schedule, that rhythm. I want to create like that—speak it, execute it, and then rest. That kind of simplicity in action and clarity in purpose is beautiful to me.

As a creative person, I continue to learn this one truth over and over: God is the source. He is the Creator. So if someone tells me they’re struggling to be creative or that creativity is hard—I’m like, “How??” The ideas for me don’t stop. They just keep coming. Without trying. Just from being. That’s what happens when you stay connected to the Source.

I’ve said this before, but when I first really leaned into my creativity, I opened a business. Didn’t know what I was doing at all. I had a Shopify site and was selling T-shirts through dropshipping. At the same time, I was writing, editing, recording, publishing my podcast twice a week. I had a rhythm—one half was sharing the Word of God, the other half was creative writing: poems, stories, whatever I felt led to release.

I didn’t understand business. Not really. I didn’t know how to pivot or manage things long-term. So I let it go. I dissolved it. It ran for a couple of years, then done. I didn’t think much about it afterward.

But today… today I did a thing. And I had no words.

Because what I’ve come to realize is that God never gave up on me—on the mission, on the ideas, on what He placed inside of me. Even when I let it go, God didn’t. He doesn’t waste anything. Not one part.

That’s something I’ve been seeing so clearly lately. Nothing we do is in vain. I was writing about Rahab not long ago, and I really felt that same truth: God is a God of faith and action. Faith without works is dead, but faith itself is movement. It’s relationship. It’s risk. And God uses everything. He’s not wasteful. He doesn’t let productivity go unnoticed.

That hit me today.

I’ve always kept my life compartmentalized—how I function professionally, personally, creatively. But today I realized: it’s not separate. It never was. All of it is me, and all of it is connected.

That thing He placed inside of me? It never left.

In fact, I can trace the current LLC I’m building all the way back—even before my first business. The same idea. Just a new form. A new name. A different angle. But the same heart. The same thread.

And God keeps using everything. Every job, every skill, every experience, every experiment.

So if you’re in a place where you feel lost or stuck—do something. Anything.

Especially if you’re a believer. Get in your local church. Start serving. For real. That’s where so many of my own gifts were uncovered. I didn’t even know I had certain skills until I was in the middle of serving.

Volunteering—at church, in your community—gets you moving. And movement matters. Doing something opens the door for discovery. Nothing comes from doing nothing.

I know this because I live this. Every time I move, every time I act, God finds a way to use it. Even when I’m not thinking about it. Even when it feels small.

God has a plan. And He’ll use everything.

Today I wasn’t even thinking about all this—but I got it back.

So yeah—praise the Lord.

-Cj