Paint Your Own Magnificence

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Elliot

Over the past several days one thing has become abundantly clear, my spiritual practice and understanding is made better when I have variety in my life experiences. I love to be creative and the Sacred Journey of Childlike Wonder as re-awakened that delight within me. For that I am truly grateful.

I had gotten into a bit of a rut for many months when I was waiting for, among other things, my husband, Dane’s green card processing to be complete. I still engaged in my standard spiritual practices, meditation, prayer, contemplation, reading, and the like. The practices were of a more passive nature, though, and I more readily and deeply connect with my Spiritual identity when I am active.

The nature of Infinite Spirit, or God, is to be creative. Spirit is always active—it’s an unceasing activity. That activity expresses itself in myriad ways by means of all of us. For me, the creative nature of Spirit is doing its thing most magnificently when I am in artistic pursuits.

Yesterday evening the Journeyers enjoyed a night of painting. We were led through a process to create a painting and when the instruction of each step was completed each of us had created an island-scape. While we were all given the same instruction, each painting was magnificent and unique, kind of like each of us. We are all magnificent and unique. While it’s a great metaphor—we are as unique as the paintings we created, and those paintings all used the same source materials—I had to take the time to let myself live in forgiveness that I let my artistic expression ebb over time.

I have written before about being an artist, and we are all artists in our own way, our art doesn’t need to be painting, or performing—our art may be expressed in our capacity to do accounting. I believe we more deeply connect when we are engaged in experiencing life actively. We can add variety to life and it all becomes richer.

So my spiritual call to everyone who reads this today is this: do something new today. Add variety to your life experience and see if you don’t feel closer to your Spiritual core. You don’t have to be the next Picasso or Renoir, just create!