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The Apple Seed

Consider the apple seed. Smaller, weighing almost nothing, looking utterly ordinary. You could hold a dozen in your palm and barely feel their weight. Yet within that tiny shell lies something extraordinary: the potential for a tree that will reach toward the sky, spread its branches wide, bear fruit, and scatter thousands more seeds across the earth.
We don't see the life inside the seed. We can't measure it or photograph it. But God placed it there, dormant and patient, waiting for the right conditions to awaken.

The creative impulse works the same way.

When inspiration touches you, whether as artist or viewer, you're holding a seed. It might arrive as a whisper, an image, a feeling you can't quite name. Something small. Something that others might not even notice. But you recognize it as alive. You sense its potential even when you can't yet see what it will become.

When that seed of inspiration arrives, it invites your response. You use your mind to recognize the impulse, your fingers to shape it, your words to express it, giving form to what you've been given. This is the quiet work of creation: not forcing something into existence, but allowing what's already alive to grow.

And here's the miracle: when you respond to that creative call, your work carries life forward. A viewer encounters your work, feels something wake up inside them, and carries that aliveness forward into their world, in whatever form it takes. One seed becomes a tree. One tree becomes an orchard. One moment of inspiration, faithfully honored, can multiply in ways you'll never fully see.

The cycle continues, generation after generation, each act of creation scattering new seeds.

This is why creativity matters. Why inspiration can't be ignored. Why art is never just decoration.

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