In her famous book on creativity, The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron writes, “Creativity is a spiritual endeavor. This does not mean we have to subscribe to someone else’s view of God and the order of things … we will flourish more as we honor the spiritual side of our own beings.”
Honoring “the spiritual side of our own beings” might mean that sometimes something speaks to us that doesn’t speak to others. We are unique, individual creations.
Are there things that spoke to you once that you’ve put behind you for one reason or another? Get them back. Write a poem. Doodle. Try a different route home from work. Play.
“This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of the life God gives us; for this is our lot,” says Ecclesiastes 5:18.
The Spirit speaks to us in the things we love, the things that touch us. Honor those gifts. Celebrate them. Life is short. Go have some fun.
This message is excerpted from “A spiritual endeavor” by Sarah Carson in the July 2022 Café online magazine.
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