✨ The Sacred Work of Becoming: Creativity, Healing, and the Journey Together

Brenda McKenzie
Jul 19
2 min read

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There’s something holy about making things.Not just art, but space. Movement. Memories. We shape our lives as we go—through color, through conversation, through choices we didn’t know were healing us until the light came back in.

I’ve come to believe that creativity is not just an outlet—it’s a ministry. It’s the brushstroke of a God who never stopped creating, and who invites us to echo that same love in how we make and mend.

🎨 Creativity Is Part of the Healing

Whether you’re holding a paintbrush or piecing together broken parts of your life, the act of making can sanctify the ache. When we create, we get to show up whole—wounded and wondrous, flawed and forming.

"Where once I had weeping wounds, I now bare the scars from the healing process."

I’ve lived that truth. And I’ve watched others live it, too—through baking, gardening, dancing, painting, crying, writing, sitting still. Creativity becomes the soil where healing takes root.

🕊 The Journey Is the Sanctification

We often wait to feel “ready” before we begin healing. But in my own story, the journey was the healing.Each surrender, each brushstroke, each honest moment with Jesus was a step away from shame and toward restoration.

This is what sanctification looks like:Not perfection, but participation.Not performance, but presence.Not arriving, but walking with.

🤍 We’re Not Meant to Do It Alone

Healing doesn’t happen in isolation.Transformation requires togetherness.

Community has saved me more times than I can count—through a stranger’s quiet peace, a friend's simple “I’ll walk with you,” and a church that let me sit in the back row until I was ready to sing again.

In a world that urges us to self-help our way to wholeness, I believe God invites us into communion—where our stories meet, our scars shine, and our sacred creativity makes space for others to breathe again.