Do your kids have "shop" class at their school?

I'm afraid most Americans today would answer that question in the negative. There are still schools that offer something, but their importance has largely been neglected.

Unfortunately, even many home school families fail to provide training in the manual arts. Girls will do some cooking with their mothers or even fathers in some homes that still actually cook. Boys will still try to fix broken things around the home. And of course there are boys who cook and girls who fix things.

My point here has nothing to do with gender issues and everything to do with generations who have grown up thinking their hands were made primarily for the purpose of making gestures while speaking and operating keypads.

What has been forgotten in this madness is that work with ones hands reaches deep into the soul of a child and pulls out that inner creativity and uniqueness.

Not everyone will be a master chef, woodcarver, metalworker, fishing fly maker, luthier, mechanic, inventor, furnituremaker, or whatever. However, every child is uniquely created in the image of God.

Speaking of our Creator, perhaps the most universally accepted doctrine in the Christian faith among all denominations is that God created the world and everything in it.

While there is much debate about the particulars, Christians universally affirm that God designed, and created, and is responsible for all. Not only are we his creation, but we live, breath, ingest, touch, and simply cannot escape his creation. It is quite literally universal.

If we are made in the image of God, and his creative nature is such an integral part of our everything, why have we ourselves ceased to make, create, build, invent, and grow?

If you agree, don't just post this on social media or text a link, go make, create, build, invent, and grow.

Luke