Everyone Has the Potential to Be Creative

Some people fiercely claim that they are not creative! 
There’s definitely some confusion about what it means to be creative. Therefore it might help to distinguish between being artistic and being creative. Not everyone is artistic. That requires both imagination and the skill to draw, paint, sculpt, or compose music. Creativity simply asks that we use our imagination to solve problems. You don’t have to draw to do that. What you do need to do is look at the world around you in new ways, find hidden patterns, and connect seemingly unrelated phenomena to generate solutions.
Practice it ... work at it! It will happen!
Just know that creativity hates complacency.

Six of the 7 Days of Creation

A pattern emerges.
As you read Genesis 1 you will see a pattern occurring ... God comes up with a plan and then the physical manifestation takes place. Things are created spiritually first (ideas, a need for a solution, inspiration) then they are created physically. That is what happens to me each time I create. Sometimes it comes easily and other times I struggle with that 'oh-so' very ​blank canvas... I battle, RESEARCH, create, discard, redo, RESEARCH, test out ideas, meditate, RESEARCH, pray, bounce ideas off friends & family and then slowly but surely the physical is made manifest. The struggle is worth it and a new baby is born. Strange how I quickly forget all about the labor pains!

Day 1 of Creation

Let me talk you through the process of creating Day 1 as it may help you with a project you are working on!
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​Procrastination.
To be honest I avoided it and decided to create Day 3. The third day of Creation was full of familiar imagery like grass, herbs, fruit trees and seeds. So I procrastinated tackling Day 1.

Deal with it!
Then the day came when I pulled up my big girl panties and decided that its time to create Day ONE. I had a blank canvas and an even blanker brain!!!
"The earth was without form and void... darkness was upon the face of the deep." Looks to me like Day 1 should be a big black square! Nope, not good enough...! So I researched, prayed, scribbled and repeated that process over multiple times. THEN wonderful things began to happen. Inspiration came. The Hebrew translation of the word 'CREATED' is shaped, fashioned. Using materials that are in existence God shaped and fashioned the earth. Out of chaos came order. The outer swirls represent chaos and if you look close you will find symbols that represent matter... solid, water and gas plus elements from the periodic table. All of these represent matter unorganised. The 3D outline rendering represents the spiritual plan of the Earth under construction while the lighter area is the spirit of God moving up the face of the waters.  
Each Day of Creation sits in a circle within a square. The square symbolises the earth and the circle represents eternity or Heaven. Therefore the circle and the square together depict Heaven on Earth... even the Garden of Eden.

Voila!
I am very proud of that art piece and over the years have come to know that persistence develops your creative muscles. Don't give up... order WILL come out of chaos.

​Thanks for reading. Would love to hear your comments.