January 2
I believe that true identity is found...in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman/Man best refined themselves by losing themelves in some kind of creative activity of her/his own.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Creative activity might mean bird watching, tennis, quilting, cooking, painting, writing. Creative activity immerses us fully in the here and now and at the same time it frees us. We become one with the activity and are nourished by it. We grow as the activity grows. We learn who we are in the very process of not thinking about who we are.
Spirituality and creativity are akin. There is an exhilaration rooted deep within us that is a lifeline to God. Creative activity releases the exhilaration, and the energy goes through us and out to others. We find ourselves and our higher power through the loss of our self-conscious selves while creating-a picture, a sentence, a special meal.
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Creativity is a given. It is another dimension of the spiritual presence guiding us all. I'll get out of its way today.
Blunt: For me, creativity has always been a struggle. I never quite knew what to do with it or how to express myself....even as a child. As an adult, I will draw if the need arises, which I do find it arising more often than not. I am by no means an amazing or talented drawer. For our spiritual growth and the connection between the two, the importance is to try to be creative; allowing yourself time to make the connection with your higher power. Perhaps my creativity comes through more when I write my feelings especially if I am passionate about what I am writing. That is when I notice "losing myself" in what I am doing or the "here and now". For this new year, I have visions of grandeur: allowing myself to find a painting talent.
Your Turn: In what ways do you lose yourself in creativity to live in the "here and now?"
January 3
Like an old panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
-Dorothy Bryant
Sometimes we feel buried in sand, blocked, clogged, unable to move. Then we must remember that we are not alone. Help is at hand, if only we will ask for it. If we invoke our higher power, our source of spiritual strength can help us to believe that there is gold somewhere in all this sand, and that the sand itself is useful.
No one and no thing is good all the time. Let us remember that if we expect nothing but gold, we are distorting life, getting in our own way. We don't want to falsify the texture of our lives; the homespun quality helps us to appreciate the gold when it appears.
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I will find some gold among the sand, today.
Blunt: Life is not and can not always be "perfect" or the way in which we would like things to be at all times. In our human form, we have chosen a path filled with many lessons. Until we learn from those lessons, we are unable to bypass the learning and the lesson presents as needed. In my life, so much goodness has come from "what at the time, may not have seemed like the best decisions for me; however, without those decisions I would not be enjoying life, love and light that is presently in my life.
Your turn:
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