Learning To Cultivate a Creative Life. a guest post by Carol Roberts

 Learning To Cultivate a Creative Life

By Carol Roberts

Christy asked me to do a guest blog post on her blog last summer.  At one point she suggested I share about the new venture my husband Paul and I are jumping into this month.

Everyone is born with creativity.  We all have our own unique way of showing creativity.  Creativity does not have to be a visual art, or music, or writing.

You can be a creative cook.  You can be a creative mechanic.   You can be a creative parent.

But sometimes we get blocked.  The flow of our creativity has stopped.  Maybe no one ever pointed out what your creativity might be.

Paul and I are here to help creatives at every part of their journey.

Maybe you have some creative ideas, but you have never really explored doing more with those ideas.  We can give you some tools to help nurture your creative spirit.

Perhaps you are someone who nurtures their creative spirit off and on.  You get bursts of creativity, but then you stop for a while.  

There is also the creative person who has got in the habit of nurturing their creative spirit on a daily basis and is creating some really wonderful things.

And maybe you have created some wonderful things, but now need some help and encouragement to send that wonderful creative goodness out into the world and share it with others.

Whatever stage you are in, we are here to help.

And we believe God, The Creator of all things, is here to help you as well.

Yes, God cares about your creations.  If you are familiar with the Bible, the first chapter of the first book, Genesis, talks about In the beginning…..

During the creation of each day, God saw the goodness in His creation.

God saw the light was good.

God called the dry ground “land” and the waters “seas”, and God saw that it was good. 

God saw that the vegetation on the land was good.

God helped separate light from darkness, and it was good.

God created the animals, and it was good.

God created humans, and it was good.

God saw all He had made, and it was very good.

So now, for some of you, this next part might take a leap of faith.  Paul and I believe it with our whole heart.

In order to live the true creative life, you must engage God, The Great Creator, in discovering, and for some, recovering your creative powers.

You might have to be a bit open-minded to accept this concept.

Because creativity is a spiritual path.  You need to allow yourself to experiment with the idea that there might be a Great Creator and you might get some kind of use from it in freeing your own creativity.

Creativity is spiritual.  For some, allowing yourself to consider the idea that there is a Great Creator and that you might get help from it in freeing your creativity might be a little strange.

For Paul and I, we are Christians, and we see The Great Creator as the Christian God from the Bible.

But we also believe that God is so big, and so loving, and so wonderful, that He can work through people who don’t necessarily see God the way we do.

We believe you can refer to God as the universe, or a good flow, or a Higher Power.  It doesn’t really matter.  Because God is real, and God wants to help you create!!

Paul and I are also gardeners.  We combine gardening and creativity and use the garden theme to share our message of learning to cultivate a creative life.

If this sounds like something that you would like to be a part of, join us at Grow Me A Story.  If you sign up to be on our email list, you will always get an encouraging email about living a creative life on Monday, Paul’s blog post on Tuesday, and Carol’s blog post on Thursday.