What is creativity?
The dictionary definition is: Giving form to something new.
Do you think of yourself as a creative person?
Children are creative geniuses, not hiding imaginary friends or memories unbounded by time; constantly creating new games, new stories, new creatures.
Our productivity-obsessed culture pressures us to confine creativity to neat categories (I’m a song- writer or poet. A water-colorist or architect.)
Yet creativity is not so easily boxed up.
Everyday is a fresh canvas, with yesterday’s brushes and paints at hand.
We create or confine ourselves into routines every day, throughout the day. Every moment asks, What will we create now?
What attitudes, habits, intentions enable us to create — to give form to something new?
When we invite a friend to our home we create a welcoming environment for them and for ourselves.
When we make a phone (or Zoom) call, we create an environment for all of us to be heard (and seen).
When we leave school and launch ourselves into the adult world, we create ways to make a living and create an ever-evolving career.
When we move beyond cultural stricture, every moment of life becomes an opportunity to create. An open field. Brush in our hand. Kindness in our open heart.
Rumi wrote, Out beyond divisions of you and me, win and lose, there is an open field. I’ll meet you there!
May we become again creative geniuses, moment by moment, creating an evolving spiritual community together!
Rev. Mary
