In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. -Genesis 1:1
When we take on an ordained position in the church, we take a vow to "pray for and seek to serve the people with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love." I must confess as summer approaches, I find myself still full of love and (most days) capable of intelligence. It’s my energy and imagination I find need more attention.
Knowing this, I made a decision this summer to take what I’m calling "a sabbatical for the creative." My goal is to watch things, read things, listen to things, and experience things that both teach me about and experience creativity.
For some reason I was hoping this journey would be inspiring; I don’t know why I didn’t expect it to be fun, but I am actually having fun with it. I attended a virtual workshop on maintaining your creative spark with quilter and fabric designer Anna Maria Horner, who suggested maintaining your creative spark by making sure to do creative things that have absolutely nothing to do with your source of income. Then I went to a free art talk at my local library with a performance artist who worked on a painting of Eartha Kitt as Cat Woman while we watched in awe. He said there’s no such thing as a creative rut; it just means we aren’t challenging ourselves enough.
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