In season three of the History Channel show Alone, contestant Zachary Fowler kept his hands and mind busy by creating all sorts of unique items saying, “I’m a maker; that’s just who I am.” After watching, my oldest daughter took to saying proudly, after a difficult diagnosis, “I may have Celiac, but God made me a maker!” To which we have replied, “Yes, my girl, he has!”

Having traversed the globe liberally in the last twenty years and made six different living situations into homes in my married life, I can attest to the beauty of leaning into this aspect of God’s image in us as makers.

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