Creativity is sorrow repellent!

Interestingly enough I have always been creative.

I enjoy words. I talk ALOT. & I have enjoyed writing since I was a child.

But for years I was preoccupied with trying to force life to become something it wasn't. So much so that I did not have the space to enjoy the creativity that was always there.

So, when 2024 came along I promised myself I wouldn't hold anything back. I knew this was the year I would let the creativity do it's thing. You want to know what happened?

Joy.

I called my mother last week to tell her that since I'd been seeking God more deeply in 2024 I felt encouraged. I remembered a time in my life where although my mother had difficulties, she walked with joy. I concluded that I must have been in that same season. Then, the Lord had me pause. I've sought God before and didn't find the joy I was experiencing this week, so it wasn't that. God reminded me that the season of life I was remembering was not because she was "seeking him"... she always did that.

The season of my life in which I remember my mother being the most joyful was when she was creating. When I was a teenager my mother became very active with the youth in my church. We had bible study, she taught us praise dances, she wrote plays for holidays like Black History Month and Christmas. We were always planning the next event. She was always showing us something, and sharing something with us. It was absolutely the most fun I've ever had a church. To this day there are lessons and laughter that I look back on and smile at.

I realized... it was the creativity that encouraged my mother and was now encouraging me! The past few weeks I have had a new luster about life and when I paused to reflect I realized nothing of my situation changed, expect for allowing myself to freely create. Any problems, discomfort, or difficulty that was present in my life in 2023 is present in my life today. The difference is my creative expression gives me a break from that which comes to steal my joy.

Creativity is sorrow repellant.

When I am being creative I can't be sad, downtrodden and angry. That is the very opposite of how my creativity flows. When I am being creative I am allowing myself to operate in a safe space that stands against any external factors, judgement or questions. Creativity frees me to be exactly who God called me to be because I operate fully through my own personal intuition.

When we see someone creating we see them operating outside of every hesitation and still small voice that tells them stop what they're doing. When you see me creating you're seeing me stepping outside of myself and operating in a freedom that could only come from God himself.

So, Go Create !