I am making my way through Julia Cameron's
The Artist's Way and part of what she addresses is how creative people can become blocked.
Let me be clear.
When I say creative people, I am talking to every one of you who are still reading this.
We are made in the image of the One who created everything. All came into being because it was created by Him. If creativity is so essential to who He is and we are created in His image, then we (all of us) are creative.
And all of us can become blocked, which may be one reason you don't think you're creative.
Through reading this book I'm discovering just how blocked I have been, but I'm learning ways to overcome that.
Part of overcoming that entails "filling the form," which is "taking the next small step instead of skipping ahead to a large one for which you may not yet be prepared."
Many of us have very creative ideas.....we want to be artists, writers, all kinds of creators, but one thing we do is look at the larger picture and don't think about the steps it takes to get there.
The painting above is not actually finished. Well, it is in that it's too dry to move the paint around, but it didn't come to completion as I had hoped it would. However, I will
learn from the process of painting and I discovered some really incredible color combinations. But what I have been trying to force myself to do is paint some....just a little....every day. Obviously, I missed a few days with the one above and it stopped at that interesting piece instead of moving in another direction.
MY POINT.....
Do what you feel you're being pulled or called to do. Don't do it
only if it can become something monumental. But work on it a little every day. If you want to be a writer, know that you must write a little every day before you write enough that you put it all together to become that published book, highly subscribed blog, or sold screenplay. If God has put something else on your heart and you feel you cannot do it in its entirety as you originally envisioned it, He can still use that idea on a smaller scale until His time is right for it to become that goal He originally placed on your heart.
As Cameron says, "What can you do, right now, in your life as it is currently constituted? Do that thing......Make changes, small changes, right where you are. Fill this form with creative care until it overflows into a new, larger form -- organically."
These words of hers have given me an action plan and some hope on the journey to becoming more creative. I hope they have been a blessing to you as well.
