Divine Creativity Cannot NOT Express

So often I hear people declare, “I’m just not creative.” The truth is that we cannot not be creative. We are “made in image and likeness of God” and God is constantly creating. Divine creativity surrounds us and is actually the impulsion of Life expressing as us. We are each imbued with the Divine Urge to express itself by means of us.

Our notion that we are not creative reflects our judgments about what constitutes creativity. Using Alan Cohen’s definition of “sin,” we have sinned against ourselves! We have imposed “Self- Inflicted Nonsense” on ourselves.

We can free ourselves from our “sins” by redefining creativity – by opening to a greater appreciation of how Spirit is bursting forth in ever changing, new ways. Every new thought is creative in how it is expressed – how it is delivered. Even when reciting someone else’s poetry, the unique delivery of an individual makes it a creative expression.

A while back I enrolled in an art class, specifically a collage class. I enjoyed it immensely on multiple levels. The levels are interwoven, simple, delightful and complex all at the same time. In the first class, I discovered that this was great way to call forth my “inner critic.” The ingenuity of critic was a magnificent demonstration of creativity. The lengths to which it would go to attempt to stifle the Divine Urge ranged from pointing out that I was the only one in the class that wasn’t an “real artist” and that my “feeble attempts” to follow the assignments probably warranted not returning after the first session. The first assignment was to make an abstract from some traditional Japanese prints. I selected a demon – how perfect! My inner critic is definitely one of my demons. The instructor guided us to make something different from our original picture.

I most definitely wanted my demon to be something different. By the end of the class, I carefully stuffed all the pieces in my folder while listening to that inner voice spouting all its judgments – and creative suggestions such as “This was a valuable experiment. You can write off the cost of the class as a learning experience.”

Fortunately, I listen to other voices within me. I actually listen most attentively to what I hear (and feel and see) in my daily personal use of our visioning process, which declared most adamantly “It’s time to explode the demon!” Suddenly, I had an image of what I wanted my collage to express. Thus began a fascinating internal confrontation between the Divine Creative Urge pushing to be revealed and my inner critic fighting for survival. It seemed that each of my attempts only validated the opinions of the critic, yet with each revision the Divine Urge awakened me to more possibilities. They fought it out with me as their witness. At the point that I declared I was complete with the project, I could still feel my inner critic writhing around but instead of allowing it to stifle Divine Creativity, I became stronger. The fragments of my demon are strewn across the page rather like Humpty-Dumpty … never to be put back together again.

Namaste’ … Rev Trish

This entry was posted in Latest News, Ministers Musings on August 5, 2016 by CSL Metro.