Unresolved
“Our organizations have tended to value control, stability, and the ability to quickly resolve tension with a solution. However, one of the dominant currencies of creativity is tension – the ability to hold seemingly opposing forces in dynamic relationship without privileging one at the expense of the other or too quickly resolving it. New life is messy and doesn’t always fit neatly into preexisting categories . . .
“. . . Creativity values tension because it creates possibility.”
Tim Keel, Intuitive Leadership, 200-201
Often we jump to answers before we have even asked the questions. We live in the assumption that until we have something pinned down we are unable to truly engage it. We love specimens, artifacts, conclusions, and statements. The problem is, once we have successfully avoided the tension by assuming a standard we have precluded the need for creativity and possibility. Nothing will be birthed.
Ever noticed how every time someone is born they are a new thing? Fascinating. We never biologically birth something that is exactly the same. In our most creaturely engagements with creation we can’t help but be wondrously imaginative.
