Creativity

Oh Wow!! I drew the Spirit@Work® – creativity!

From the text:

Creativity fertilizes the Soul by encouraging personal development so that we may reap our harvest.  Creativity nourishes everything in life. Without creativity, we can exist be we cannot be truly alive.

and,

The act of creating something is a Soulful practice, but when the creative spirit is restrained, it rebels.

From the poem:

May I balance structure with freedom

And challenge with encouragement,

So that creativity can flourish

In a safe place, with recognition and support.

Guide me in my own creativity,

Helping me let go of the outcomes.

I love being creative and it truly nourishes my Soul.  For some strange reason I let go of almost all of my creative activities.  Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I have a sadness buried deep inside of me.  A place that I rarely visit.

I found that I was amused at how excited I was to draw the card creativity and how sad it made me feel when I actually thought about what the card meant.  It was not at all what I expected. True, the writing of the first draft of my memoir, Footprints on My Soul is a creative process. However, I’ve realized that it is almost the only creative thing I do now.

I’m looking forward to the editing stage of my memoir in the new year. That is where creativity will come alive for the book.  Rounding out scenes, adding historical events, and even playing with word and sentence structure are creative processes. I get to take all of my random memories and put them in order and bring life to them once again through the creation of a finished book.

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