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Making the Commitment to a Creative Life

Musings, Sivana East

Each of us is endowed with a gift: the gift of creation. It’s in our bones, our breath, the very fibers of our being. But often we don’t recognize this essential part of us. Maybe we don’t see it clearly because we don’t paint or write. Maybe we were told as a child that our passion for music was a nice hobby but wouldn’t be lucrative as an adult. Perhaps our lives were (or still are) so difficult, so unordered, so devoid of creative inspiration for whatever reason that we simply never discovered that one spark that is unique within each of us.

Yet it’s there. And deep down, though we often deny it, we feel its truth. When we see someone else with a talent we admire, and we think, “Why can’t I do that,” it’s not that we are unable; it’s that we haven’t yet tried. We’ve doubted our own talent; we’ve clung to our learned sense of unworthiness, and we’ve allowed that to be our excuse for not exploring our creative being-ness. The fact that we’re even asking the question tells us that it’s there inside us. We just have to let it out. And lest we not forget, creativity is housed in our bodies, though not in the mind and not even fully in the heart. But rather we tap into it in the sacral region, the space that is uniquely designed for the most basic form of creation, that of new life. What better place from which to spring forth creation of all manner!

Of course, we know that new life requires a birthing process, and that process can be painful, difficult, shrouded in darkness, the unknown, and sometimes loss. There are no promises, only the hope embodied in the delicate creation that is to come. For so many of us, that unknown and risk of loss is too great. We use it as an excuse to keep ourselves in the dark about our true power and the ever-present need to create. And without it, we wither. Because creativity is our birthright. It is our honor. It is who we are.

And so how do we tap into that place inside where we once freely created as a child, and how do we go back and grieve that moment where we turned away from the creator we instinctively are? How, in this world that most places a high value on productivity over creativity (or perhaps more accurately, the act of creating, for we do so love the outcome of a creative endeavor) do we find the intrinsic value in a creative life? How, in this busy life, do we make time for creativity?

Honestly, how do we not?

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Posted On: October 11, 2018

You Are the Prayer

Awakenings, Poetry, Spirit Reveries

meditating in a spring field

You are the prayer
Quietly whispered by the Creator
In the moment you were breathed into existence
The spark which lit the night
And sent awareness into the skies

You are the prayer
Silently held in the lonely chapel
Beads tightly gripped in sweaty hands
Hoping for a god of miracles

You are the prayer
The joyous celebration of songs sung
From the high cathedrals of the heart
Echoing through the halls of your soul

You are the prayer
Of the grasses and trees
The flowers, the streams, the wind, and the bee
You are the last hope, the savior
The one wields the power to harvest the future

You are the prayer, the song
The sanctuary of the collective soul
You are the one you’ve been waiting for

©SpiritLed 2016

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Posted On: October 31, 2016

Creation

Poetry, Spirit Reveries

butterfly

Creation,
The sincerest form of worship
What better praise than to follow
In the footsteps of the Creator?

Let creation flow through you
Fill you with its orange glow
Fire in the belly of your soul
New life from the spirit of creation’s first kiss
Sparking being and illuminating
The exact moment of aliveness

Be brave –
Build
Paint
Construct
Sew
Write
Birth
Solve the problems of the world
With just your divine creator’s touch

Flowing through
Becoming you
Out in the world
A creator

©SpiritLed 2016

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Posted On: October 10, 2016

Daily Bliss – April 1

Daily Bliss

There is a creative nature in you waiting to be born.  Tap into it, and set the creator free.

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Posted On: April 1, 2015

How Do You Help the World?

Poetic Healing, Spirit Reveries

heart cloud

How do you help the world?

You LOVE~
Love yourself
Love your neighbor
Love your enemy
Love the less fortunate
Love the fortunate
Love the dictators
Love the soldiers
Love the hateful
Love the animals
(all of them, even the very tiny)
Love the plants and trees and water
Did I mention to love yourself?

Love with the heart of the Creator
the spirit of the angels
the precision of the universe within your soul

©SpiritLed 2015

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Posted On: February 23, 2015

Share, Make, Light

Poetic Healing, Spirit Reveries

Night sky praise

With your hands, build the future
one tiny piece of wire or brick
or drop of paint at a time

With your heart, love the world well
each hug, each kind gesture,
each forgiveness
one step closer to redemption

With your spirit, become the essence
of the world you want to see,
embody the Creator
in your every thought,
in your soul’s flow,

so that Earth in its tragedy
may embody Heaven
on its hill of salvation
reachable, connecting,
a shining light of hope

©SpiritLed 2015

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Posted On: February 11, 2015

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