Inspiration...

In our home we all have special places where we like to create. In those nooks, corners and studios are inspiration walls: a combination of pictures, quotes, fabric, sayings, and words that guide us to create. Sometimes life happens and we don't especially feel like making anything, or writing anything, or really doing anything creative. That is when the inspiration wall comes in handy and the following prayer kicks our lazy butts into artistic action:

An Artist's Prayer

O Great Creator,
We are gathered together in your name,
That we may be of greater service to you,
And to our fellows.
We offer ourselves as instruments.
We open ourselves to your creativity in our lives.
We surrender to you our old ideas,
We welcome your new and more expansive ideas.
We trust that you will lead us,
We trust that it is safe to follow you.
We know that you created us and that creativity
Is your nature and our own.
We ask you to unfold in our lives,
According to your plan, not our own self worth.
Help us to believe that it is not too late
And that we are not too small or too flawed,
To be healed~
By you and through each other~and made whole.
Help us to love one another,
To nurture each other's unfolding,
To encourage each other's growth,
And understand each other's fears
Help us to know that we are not alone,
That we are loved and lovable.
Help us to create as an act of worship to you.
~Julia Cameron

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not?"Pablo Picasso

"When I am.. completely myself, entirely alone..or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and more abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart






























"If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and and walk in the dark." St John of the Cross

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries." A.A. Milne

and one more..: )
"Sometimes," said Pooh, 'The smallest things take up the most room in your heart." A.A. Milne