I’ve been thinking a lot about creativity lately, about how creating is a
spiritual act because it reconnects us with the Creator—and ourselves.Not too
long ago, Therese Borchard quoted Thomas Merton in her Beyond Blue blog.
The Trappist monk and bestselling author wrote:
“In silence you will discover
the Great Artist from whom you emerged; you will sense the pulse of creative
energy through your being so that you slowly grow to recognize that creating is
your birth-right, and that you join your work with this ultimate work. But the
call is nourished by the silence. We continue to return to this open space to
remember who we are.
”Creativity doesn’t necessarily mean writing, dancing,
painting or sculpting. It could also involve making dinner, planning a
celebration for a friend; it could be finding a solution to a niggling problem
at work. The only requirement is that we truly engage with the activity and in
so doing touch and express our deeper selves. The silence that Merton
prescribes often facilitates that ability.
With all the myriad things we must
attend to in our busy lives, we sometimes skate on the surface. We forget the
joy of discovery, the allure of allowing curiosity to take us down this alley
and that byway; we forget the value in wool-gathering. So unlike Nike’s
directive to “Just do it!” perhaps we’d be better served to just “Be still…”
http://www.guideposts.org/blogs/thrive/how-to-become-more-creative
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