568. Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness. ~Julia Cameron

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gray, dismal, gloomy-cloudy
brown, beige, falling-leaves
fog, mist, rain-water
muted, chilly, windy-autumn…
Where or where to start the day’s post?
Looking out at the world this morning,
I see all these things and more,
and so now it’s just how to begin?

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The writer has a volume of words, the artist a palette of paints, the musician a range of notes, and all three have a desire to create images that find a home in the human heart. They also have a passion to satisfy longings in their souls with what they create. So the wordsmith employs rhymes, punctuation, syntax and so on. The musician’s realm is concerned with chords, notes, instruments, etcetera. For the artist, it’s easels, canvases, paints and the list goes on. We are all made in the image of our Creator, and therefore we too must create. Okay, okay, before you say but I’m not any of these things, let me just add that these are only 3 outlets for creativity. Gardeners create growing spaces, builders construct homes, teachers inspire learning, homemakers raise children, and on and on it goes. Finally let me quote a definition of creativity that I came across recently: “Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and in some way valuable is created (such as an idea, a joke, a literary work, painting or musical composition, a solution, an invention etc). The range of scholarly interest in creativity includes a multitude of definitions and approaches involving several disciplines; psychology, cognitive science, education, philosophy (particularly philosophy of science), technology, theology, sociology, linguistics, business studies, songwriting and economics, taking in the relationship between creativity and general intelligence, mental and neurological processes associated with creativity, the relationships between personality type and creative ability and between creativity and mental health, the potential for fostering creativity through education and training, especially as augmented by technology, and the application of creative resources to improve the effectiveness of learning and teaching processes.” So it is that you, all of you, were born to create. Explore your options, find your talents, embrace them, cultivate them, expand them, share them!!! They are sacred gifts with a holy and powerful purpose.

Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, He confirmed it with an oath. ~Hebrews 6:17   ✝

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24 thoughts on “568. Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness. ~Julia Cameron”

  2. Oh I love your “observation” of creativity! I use to tell the kids, especially those who came to me with a good bit of trepidation about taking an art class, feeling as though they had no talent, no skills, no creativity- and wondering why in the heck they had been “put” in an art class—-that yes there are those who seem to possess a God given gift for “art” and or creativity–but that doesn’t stop any of us from learning a few “tricks” to be able to tap into our own hidden area buried somewhere inside that was longing to express itself—
    Here’s to the creative process in life—which is in every and all aspects of living!!
    Hugs and love Natalie—Julie

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  9. Love, love, love this Natalie. The whole topic of creativity and how we all create… I love it. I think I’m ADHD. I once watched a TEDx Talk on creativity by a guy that has ADHD. He told a story of him asking his father for specific things, and his dad would be like, “What for?” It was all because he became passionate about a specific thing at a specific time and needed to do it. I feel like that. I’m no great poet, song writer, dancer, mixed media artist, photography – but want to do it all. And I’m trying to invest in it all. I can’t just stick with one. It drives me nuts. Hehehe. I’ve been meaning to actually get testing done, to tell you the truth.
    Ohhhhhh, I see the snow showed up finally on your blog. You must be ecstatic.
    Hugs and love – Staci
    🙂 ❤

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    • I’m always wanted to do it all too. It fact I have tried so many things and enjoyed most all of them. And the cool thing is that you can bring what you learn in one area into another to enhance what you do there. Yes, I chatted with a WP lady today and she showed me how to make it so. I am ecstatic. It’s just too much fun!!! Hugs and love back to you, missy.
      ❤ 🙂

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