"To write music like that you must be a chosen instrument of God."  So said pianist Dinu Lipatti as he reflected on the music of Ludwig Beethoven shortly before he (Lipatti) died in 1950 at the age of 33.
     Lipatti's words underscore the magnificence of human possibility.  Though Beethoven certainly had his share of woes and eccentricities, no one doubts the depth of passion and creative power that he brought to his music.  We listen to his compositions and marvel:  how could one person create such beauty, such sublimity?  Or Mozart.  As a contemporary said of him, "He was like an angel sent to us for a season, only to return to heaven again."  Most of us can only stand mute and astonished before Mozart's immense musical ability.  How could one person write works of such extraordinary wonder?
     Let's consider a verse from the first chapter of Genesis.  "And God created man [man and woman] in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created him" (Genesis 1:26).  The God who created the universe with all its immense complexity and wonder is the same God who created, with equal wonder, every human being.  For this reasons, every person who has ever been born and walked through the history of this planet has the potential to duplicate and express, albeit in finite (yet often, in the case of Mozart and Beethoven, astounding) form, the creativity that birthed the cosmos.
     Rightly do we crater and weep at the beauty of Beethoven and Mozart's music; they are works of unsurpassed wonder.  Yet rightly do we marvel equally at God, the personal infinite God who made and fashioned these artists--with all their prodigious abilities--and enabled them to be and become who and what they are.
     In truth, where else could have creativity come from?