Open to Supernatural Support

Today, let's soften our rational and sensible minds and be more open to receiving divine creative support.

THE GREAT CREATOR (continued)

Many of us equate difficulty with virtue—and art with fooling around.

Hard work is good. A terrible job must be building our moral fiber. Something —a talent for painting, say—that comes to us easily and seems compatible with us must be some sort of cheap trick, not to be taken seriously. On the one hand, we give lip service to the notion that God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. On the other, we secretly think that God wants us to be broke if we are going to be so decadent as to want to be artists. Do we have any proof at all for these ideas about God?

Looking at God’s creation, it is pretty clear that the creator itself did not know when to stop.

There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

When it comes time for us to choose between a cherished dream and a lousy current drudgery, we often choose to ignore the dream and blame our continued misery on God. We act like it’s God’s fault we didn’t go to Europe, take that painting class, go on that photo shoot. In truth, we, not God, have decided not to go. We have tried to be sensible—as though we have any proof at all that God is sensible—rather than see if the universe might not have supported some healthy extravagance.

The creator may be our father/mother/source but it is surely not the father/mother/church/teacher/friends here on earth who have instilled in us their ideas of what is sensible for us.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Why should it be? Why should you be? Do you still think there is some moral virtue in being martyred? If you want to make some art, make some art. Just a little art … two sentences. One rhyme. A silly kindergarten ditty:

God likes art.
That’s the part
My parents would ignore.

God likes art,
And I make art.
That’s what God likes me for!

(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 107-108)

My creativity does not have to be sensible.

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NATURAL ABUNDANCE

Option 1: Find five pretty or interesting rocks.

I enjoy this exercise particularly because rocks can be carried in pockets, fingered in business meetings. They can be small, constant reminders of our creative consciousness.

Option 2: Pick five flowers or leaves.

You may want to press these between wax paper and save them in a book. If you did this in kindergarten, that’s fine. Some of the best creative play is done there. Let yourself do it again.

“All substance is energy in motion. It lives and flows. Money is symbolically a golden, flowing stream of concretized vital energy.”

– Patrick J. Harbula