Creative Empulses

11/01/2025

The tradition continues of homemade costumes. Fox, bald eagle, and a guy wearing the full armor of God.

09/24/2025

Newest blog post:

A shooter recently snuffed the life out of someone many of us found inspiring. I daresay, many of us aspired to be able to carry our convictions about faith and truth as confidently and skillfully as Charlie Kirk did. His assassin undoubtedly thought he was doing the world a favor, ridding it of a m...

06/07/2025

Reflections on what we've learned the last few years.

Recently, my social media memories popped up with the following status from five years ago, fairly early on following the death of George Floyd and the ensuing riots."My heart has been so heavy mulling over the recent circumstances, particularly those in Minneapolis. Please hear me loud and clear th...

02/15/2025

Baby burp rags are one of those things that are crazy easy to make and a perfectly practical gift for any mom-to-be. They're simple to churn out in a big batch to have on hand for upcoming baby showers.

01/29/2025

Worldly Christianity is no substitute for Christ's Lordship.

Well, after much angst, the presidential election of 2024 and along with it, the inauguration of President Trump have come and passed. Neither event went without gnashing of teeth, but they’re both behind us, and fortunately without too much drama besides the usual pomp and circumstance that alway...

12/26/2024

Some years are heavier than others.

But we shouldn't let that stop our singing.

Merry Christmas, friends.

May your hope be in Him.

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10/16/2024

One of the funnest parts of being creative is getting to use it in all sorts of creative outlets. My son got to dress up as a Greek god for a school project, and so of course, I had to get hands on with his costume. He may not have let me go quite as crazy with it as my imagination was willing to take it, but we had fun working on it and he looked great doing his presentation today.

08/30/2024

My most recent blog post.

If Christians can’t discern that which God says is good, true, and beautiful, who can?

07/19/2024

My site got an updated look recently!

Finding beauty in the everyday in an unexpected way, Creative Empulses is the creative outflow of Emily Peterson of Pittsburg, Kansas. She is a believer in Jesus Christ, a loving wife and mother, a teacher, and creativity just tends to ooze out of everything she does. With dreams of being a writer s...

07/10/2024

Some blog thoughts following this 4th of July.

We just celebrated the 4th of July this past week. Celebrated the victory that was won by our continental army nearly two and half centuries ago to free us from the government we had been subject to previously. And as a country, we have (seemingly) completely forgotten what they were fighting that w...

06/19/2024

Over a decade since I wrote this, but every bit as relevant as ever.

God's been working on me lately. (Well, who am I kidding -- that Guy has always got something He is working on with me.) This week, it's the idea of daughterhood. And not just daughterhood, but that of parenthood, as well. (And I suppose sons fall into this too, but since this story involves my daug...

05/21/2024

It's been a wild 5 years for us since this day.

I awoke abruptly at the sound of our power going out. Funnily enough, such a sound is usually remarkably silent, save for a few beeps from electronics, and then the absence of the hum of modern amenities like fans and air conditioning. On that hot and humid Monday afternoon in May, I wasn’t sure w...