How do I express creativity?

“When we trust our creativity, we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment–an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.”Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

This was the quote of the day earlier in October and I wrote my morning meditation after reading it. I have had to let go and accept that many of my abilities that I deemed creative are things I can no longer do but reading this quote and writing about it helped me to realize that trusting one’s creativity is important even when our talents have waned. The meditation follows:

What does it mean to“trust my creativity?” How often do I allow myself to pause, stop and enjoy the “natural unfolding of life?” How often do I let go and let life flow in and through me? If I truly believe that life is trust worthy, that I will always be shown a way through, why can’t I relax?

Perhaps, the challenge is my “ordinary way of looking at things.” I still, after 79 years on this earth, fear failure, crave acceptance, struggle to feel of worth. I am wounded. We are all wounded but to quote Henri Nouwen, “May we become wounded healers.” Perhaps the key to this quote is the word “creativity.” How often do I remember that we are all Creator? What we think, what we do matters. And so I pray: May I, may you, may we all develop a healthy love and acceptance of self that shares, cares and creates a kinder world.