Creative

Today’s guest post comes from a friend who for years pew-sat near where I pew-sat. We waved, smiled, hugged, and regularly engaged in worship side-by-side. I came to know her creative heart as she shared through a regular design article in our local paper and through her business posts over social media. Her eye for beauty never fails, and neither does her willingness to pray.

Create Challenge #33: Ann McDonald

Creative
Endless possibility
Firmly plant
God’s heart, the soil
Steward in the secret place
No limit
No place too deep, heights beyond
Measure scars
Healed, beauty born
Order out, safety balance
Justice scales
Creative beyond measure
Increasing
Holy, shouldered
Love, weight, fallen yet redeemed
To a
Place of honor stewarded
Secret place
The psalmist sings
Transparent truth, weight measured
Rhythmic chords
Bearing anguish, healing souls
Spirits soar
Beyond clouds
Relationship, chords become
Life, birthed
In blood, redeemed creative
Bring forth new
Today, glory
Endless soil, possible
Rooted in
God’s heart, stewarded from
Secret place
Creative, you
Are, beloved truth, birthed from
Blood, redeemed
Endless possibility
From the soil
God’s heart, now seeds
Break through, growth, fearless, timeless
Creative be

Ann McDonald is a visionary creative strategist and tactician. She has a unique skill for constructing and deconstructing the macro without sacrificing the micro in the marketplace and in the realm of ideas. Ann foreruns curriculum creation for consultants, and coaches Leaders across the spectrum unto growth and profitability.

A 25 year veteran of the Luxury Design Industry, Ann is the Business Moderator for a trade community over 100,000 strong. She has a passion for equipping creatives. She creates processes to bring ideas from raw form to implementation, and then towards influence and increase.

Ann graduated from UC Berkeley, is married to Patrick, has two grown sons, three pugs, and currently splits time between Lake Tahoe and the San Francisco Bay Area.