Dear,

I don't know about you but I have enjoyed watching the Olympics this year and it's not over yet, even more so than I had previously. It is as if I could sense the athlete's energy across the water. I have great admiration for Katie Taylor the boxer of course but also the woman who sticks to her message, "what would I be without Jesus in my life?". Would her opponents share the same outlook?

You too certainly know that song "Trouble with a Capital T"?. The first gift I received from Joe, my husband, was a CD from Horselips with that song in it. I went to see them last Sunday at the National Concert Hall, (complimentary ticket from my man). It is incredible to know that it was all over for them in 1980, and yet to see their fans with as much enthusiasm as ever before during the concert. It seems to me they never left the scene. This band is able to re-create itself all the time.

Today's Positive Thinking

"Keep the positive principle going by visualizing energy and vitality continuously at work within you, refreshing body, mind and spirit". Positive Thinking Everyday - Norman Vincent Peale.

The Call To Create

The sound may be faint as the stirring of butterfly wings or as loud as a brass band on 17th March . Or you may not hear a sound at all, but feel an urging, an inner pull, a sense of excitement and longing that resonates from within. This is the call to create, and it is universal, bidding each of us to bring something new into being.

“Creativity is the Self searching for itself,” said George Gamez, Ph.D., author of How to Catch Lightning in a Bottle. We create in order to express our unique visions and perceptions. We create to communicate and to form a bond with our fellow human beings. Creative expression helps us feel connected to the world and builds bridges of understanding. It nourishes us and helps us grow, provides insights and deeper understandings. Creativity is fun, exciting and playful. It relieves stress and releases tension. It provides a way of communication when normal channels may be blocked or are insufficient—when we must speak in colors and textures and shimmering visions and music.

Creativity is love expressing itself; it heals and renews. Our creations are mirrors in which others may see themselves and the signature of our lives that says, “This is how I saw it.”

Everyone is Creative

No matter what you may have been told, every one of us is creative. It is as much a part of us as our voice and breath and fingerprints. Creativity isn’t just about making “art.” Cooking, gardening, handiwork and crafts, keeping a journal are all creative acts. Arranging flowers or rearranging furniture, painting a picture or painting a room, singing on stage or singing in the shower—these are responses to the call.

Creativity is a way of living. It is being spontaneous and playful, exercising the imagination, finding solutions, and embracing possibilities and doing it all with passion.

Yet for all the joy and fulfillment it brings, some resist the call to be creative. In our culture the ideas that “Time is money” and “Art is frivolous” hold certain sway, and old messages such as, “Stay inside the lines” or “You can do better than that” have remarkable staying power. It takes courage to look beneath the surface of what we’ve been told in order to find our heart’s desire.

Creativity requires risk-taking. It asks us to surrender, to lose control and to trust. “Committing to our creativity is an act of faith,” wrote Jan Phillips, in Marry Your Muse. “A promise to believe in ourselves.”

Honoring the creative Self means finding time, making space, being patient and taking the chance of looking foolish. You cannot care too much what others think or say. You must be willing to start over and stay with it; creativity takes stamina. There are no magical secrets or absolute rules. Creativity can’t be taught. You just do it. “Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us,” said Corita Kent.

Like the body’s natural urge for motion and the human need for connection and community, the spirit longs to express itself. So when you hear the call to create, answer, “Yes.” It is your self searching for your Self, a movement toward being whole.

In Health and Wellness,

"Your Good Time Maker"

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