God is creating light and he's creating this world for us to come, soon to come and inhabit, right?

But also he is creating light as a boundary.

And so that light has a purpose.

That light is pushing back the darkness.

And I just couldn't shake the thought of like, yeah, you know what? God created the world and made it

beautiful and bright and aesthetically pleasing for us, right? But also that light is so functional

and so purposeful. Like he pushed back the darkness. And so what if our creativity? What if our art? What if our making,

our producing, anything that we're cultivating has that same effect of pushing back the darkness

in our own lives, in the lives of the people around us, in the world?

You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women, where we explore the stunning

truth that God hears you, he sees you, and he loves you because you are his.

Find out how these realities free you today on God Hears Her.

Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Erin Atkins.

And I'm Alyssa Morgan. Back in the beginning, God created the earth and everything we see and know.

And since then, we tend to consider creating as making beautiful art. Things like painting and singing and dancing and

writing. Those are considered true art. But what if we started to think about creating differently?

Rachel Marie Kong is the founder of the Fallow House, an author of Let There Be Art. She wants to encourage people to look at their gifts as art because we were created by

the true artist.

Let's start this conversation on God hears her with asking Rachel the question.

When did words start mattering to you?

When I look back in my life, I do see these little milestones where maybe I learned in a

different way that words mattered.

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