The Idea Shepherd

Anticipating the Light

I was walking before sunrise when a rooster crowed in the dark. Later I learned roosters don’t need sunlight to crow. Their internal clock tells them: “It’s time. A new day is coming.”

That’s the shift: from responding to light to anticipating it.

In our idea work, anticipation means:

• Catching subtle sparks before they slip away.

The World as a Work of Art

Observation
Genesis doesn’t just tell us God created; it tells us He formed. He set the stars in their places, shaped the sun and moon for both beauty and utility—for signs and seasons. Creation is framework and gallery at once.

Connection
If the world is a work of art, maybe our role is to walk through it like a museum—pausi

Solomon had the ability (by God) to teach uncommon lessons through commonplace things.

'He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish. ' — 1 Kings 4:32-33

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The other day I saw a picnic table under a tree, and it stopped me.

God made the tree. People made the table.

It reminded me of what T.D. Jakes once said: God didn’t make tables, He made trees — and He gave you a brain to imagine what those trees could be.

That table was a “creation from creation.” And it’s not just furniture — it’s a setting for life