The creative process allows beauty to unfold in mysterious ways from our imagination. The possibility of the beautiful flower is within the bud–it just needs to open.
What can you allow to unfold in your life today?
Blankness
The blank canvas, the blank paper, the blank mind–all are starting places for creativity. We require blank space and sometimes must work to make it so that creativity can happen.
How can you make blank space in your spirit or your life today?
Shaping God
“Despite it all, God is change. And despite how painful, this change is holy. As I repeat these words to myself, grounding myself in the divinity of this only lasting truth, more of Octavia [Butler]’s words come to me—’God exists to be shaped’—and I begin to work on shaping this change, reckoning with the knowledge that it is holy because it is mine to make. I am no longer a victim of change: I am creating shifting grounds. I am shaping the world that is to come, shaping God.”
-Martha Durkee-Neuman
How can you shape change to create a new vision of the holy today?
Discomfort
We can recognize discomfort as a sign of growth. We can recognize discomfort as a sign that we are being asked to do something new. For those of us who move through the world with some measure of privilege, we can recognize discomfort as a necessary step to centering the needs of the marginalized.
How do you need to learn to live with your discomfort so that others’ needs are centered?
Abetting
“We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.”
-Annie Dillard
What are you abetting today? What are you witnessing?