Finnish What You Start

Last year I had already started envisioning this blog ( kind of pre-made new year’s resolution, that I guess I can finally tick off? ), and thankfully I thought ahead by photographing a few things I wanted to write about. One of these being my excitement towards Finland’s 101 Anniversary of Independence, to be marked on the 6 th of December. ( Yes, writing this is rather overdue! ) I wanted to bake something that signified Finland. I had thought of baking some biscuits with blue icing. It was then I recalled the cookie cutter set, which my Great Aunt gifted for me last year during the big centenary celebration. The set included a medium sized cookie cutter in the shape of Finland, with a small cookie cutter in the middle as the heart. The packaging was so delightful, it even had a postcard on the back of the cookie cutter! Isn’t that ingenious? While examining the packaging I began to feel that I didn’t want to open it, a) to keep it for sentimental value the way I r...

Everything I am, everything I do and everything I am capable of being all speaks of God’s creation. I am His creation, created for life and living, created for purpose. It is in this way of thinking I feel everyone can express themselves creatively. God the All-Creator, made each of us in His image therefore implying that each of us can express ourselves creatively. The Bible expresses how each person was made uniquely for this purpose: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:14-15) For myself, this means drawing, writing, encouraging others, cooking, crafting and many other things that may peak my interest to dabble in. Although my creativity is found within the arts, other’s may be different, take for instance a Mathematics Teacher who has explained a formula and its workout in five different ways to a school student who just...