* The Creative Spirit

December 8, 2008

There is a growth stage to creativity.  A nurturing stage when you must allow yourself to simply 'be'.  Allow your creative juices to bubble up from the depths of your soul.  A time of frustration, when it's possible to detach yourself from the frustration and allow the creative project and process to grow from within.

I feel so sad at the moment.  A deep deep sadness, not unlike great loss - an emptiness.  Is this what happens before the fullness of the actual creation process?  Emptiness - then fullness?  Like the growth of a child inside our bellies???  Then finally - Ah Ha moments! It all comes together and we give birth to something beautiful - something exciting that fills us with joy.  Something we want to share which may bring a smile or a reaction from others.  Is this what it's all about?  The hollowness -- the deep soul sadness? Then little by little, piece by piece, a gift, a blessing is bestowed on us?  A sigh of relief.  A sudden knowing we haven't lost it forever?  We have found it again and in fact it has always been there?  It was simply a logistics glitch.  We have been given the correct most explicit directions, as though we were looking at a GPS.  And finally, out it pops -- our creation, our gift to ourselves and others?

Please God, Goddess, All there is, please make it so.  I simply cannot bear the emptiness another moment.  Show me where to next place my foot upon this earth.  With gratitude, Donna