We often think of creativity in terms of pushing the boundaries to new frontiers, innovation, discovery, and a capacity for ideation. In what sense might creativity, however, recover something even more basic? What if sustainable abundance was a defining characteristic of the ways in which people everywhere experienced and practiced creativity? 

What if creativity is experienced and understood as never being in lack, never feeling worthless or inferior, always operating in a sphere of understanding where, whether young or old or anywhere in between, the more we give the more we are being renewed day-by-day? In such a scenario, creative maturity may be understood in terms of an increasingly greater capacity and desire to serve others.

Learning to rely and draw upon creativity from beyond ourselves and especially for the sake of others takes commitment, and many leaps of faith. As we mature in our creative capacities we become vessels or channels who recover and distribute creativity characterized by sustainable abundance, where sustainable abundance is an invitation to move from a posture of unrest to being restful. It involves a de-centering on “me and mine alone” to focus entirely on compassionate service to others, through whom we also receive strength and validation for our ministry of creativity.

Some thoughts to ponder,

To what extent is what I do as a creative primarily a reaction to what others think or expect of me, versus, being a channel or instrument of a higher creativity flowing through me as a healing balm on my relationships with others? Am I always testing whether or not others will respond favorably to what I produce, in other words, to me, through my creativity? Or, is my creativity (process and product) an invitation to rest in something much bigger that who I am alone? 

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