At the heart of innovation is the joy unspeakable, but yet danceable!
We just moved across states here in the U.S, again! This time, it was into a home that we bought, which we believe is an awesome blessing and something we don’t take lightly.
The key themes that would govern our lives here as I envisioned would be joyfulness and gladness! What would it look like to have everything we did, including how we went about setting up the home decor etc., infused with joyfulness and gladness?
The first thing that I wanted to do as soon as our furniture came in–not much but still precious in our sight–was to eat at the dining table as a family. It’s a small table. But my daughter’s did not want to eat together at the table. One of them wanted to use her computer in preparation for a class or test of some sort that she had to take in about an hour or so from when we were going to start to eat. Our younger girl followed suit in that she did not want to eat at the table for other reasons.
I felt offended and disrespected. I blamed them for being rebellious. We argued back and forth defending our stances. I’m not sure who won, but in the end I was left bereft of joy and gladness.
What makes this even more poignant is that I had recently facilitated a session with a learning community on how to create intimate spaces of belonging qualified by things such as vulnerability, mutuality, preferring one another — all ways in which the Creator creates an environment for others to share in the divine dance of creativity.
However, when it came to me actually doing the “dance” and inviting others to share in it, I failed miserably.
What is true is that all of us fall short of perfection. But then again, abject failure must be rooted in faith, which is central to creative confidence (con+fide = with + faith). And ultimately, what is faith, but a sharing in the divine dance of creation as an ongoing and continuous generative space for the overflow of all things good and beautiful.
May we as creatives never forget that our primarily responsibility is to first take up our invitation to join the divine dance of creation and so lose ourselves in the process so much so that when others are invited into the process they too get caught up in the divinity of creativity. May we never allow the fallenness of humanity to corrupt the dignity of our calling.
Photo by Thiago Miranda: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-dancing-on-pedestrian-crossing-near-bus-1260580/
