“Creativity, story-telling, dream work, imagery exercises, music, brushwork, writing, divination to connect with inner wisdom.”
Agh! What to write about?!?
When I feel challenged with “imagination-work” I freeze, I get anxious, I feel inadequate.
I’m not a very creative person. I don’t paint, draw, knit, create new recipes (I even am challenged following proofed recipes). I don’t write music; I can’t even play music. Make those cute crafty items we can find from now through Easter…the Halloween, the Thanksgiving, the Christmas, the Valentine’s Day, the Easter trinkets/displays/crafts? Nothing comes from my hands. When my kids were young, I’d joke that a teacher could never tell if I helped them with a project. More than once, W, L or K would gently suggest I stop helping them!
Though I’ve worked with people to do imagination exercises, I have difficulty seeing a story in my own mind’s eye.
Yet, I can write a sermon, week after week – sometimes two, even three sermons a week if needed.
I can hear a person share an incident and help them tease it out into a full blown story, with meaning and insight for them.
I dream, can wake up and see the way my sub-conscious has worked on issues that I’d ignored or struggled with during daylight.
So, I’m not creative using my hands, but God has gifted me to use words, to use ideas. Thank God we are gifted differently, so that our expressions, our uses of those gifts might create a rich tapestry in the world. A tapestry that is to God’s glory, a tapestry that expresses the grace – the freely given, abundant love we receive from God.
How do you use your gift of imagination?