May 29, 2025

Dear God, 

Your presence never fails me. In the stillness of the morning, I enter my depths, and you are here— first in the sensation of warmth and then in the awareness that you are everything. You come from inside, outward. You are already in me and have been from the beginning. 

May 28, 2025

Someone I once knew said he likes coffee because it makes him feel creative. How could coffee make us more creative? Studies show that caffeine can remove barriers to creativity by improving concentration, enhancing focus, and increasing the ability to think divergently. But there are other ways we can remove obstacles to creativity. 

May 27, 2025

Sometimes, we hit a mental, emotional, or physical wall. But if we tap into the creative energy available, we push through the walls to unexplored territory. By enlarging our scope and perspective, our heart, body, and mind capacities increase, and we are no longer slammed. 

May 26, 2025

Many people associate creativity with femininity. Portions of our society reinforce women for being creative and discourage men from saying they are creative. Many people who identify as male, seem culturally groomed to say things like, “I leave all the decorating to my wife.” And “I wouldn’t know how to begin to paint or draw.” However, a person who identifies as female is generally encouraged by our culture, to be creative. But creativity is not owned by any one gender.

May 25, 2025

Tapping into the creative flow is easier than we think. But it takes a willingness to stop our ego’s thinking and planning and to “shush” our inner critic. And one of the best ways to do this is to doodle. We can enter the creative flow with a simple pencil and paper. We begin with the blank sheet and, with our hands, make any mark without thinking about it. This one mark sparks us to add another and then another until we are drawing. The doodles don’t have to make sense, and we do not critique whatever comes from our hands and lands on the sheet. The drawing can be shapeless or symmetrical; it can resemble a person, nature, a cartoon, or anything unrecognizable. 

May 24, 2025

As you know, writer's block is an impasse when no new ideas flow from the writer’s mind into their pens or keyboards. One writer described writer’s block this way: “Writing is like swimming in a large lake of ideas and concepts, stories, themes and metaphors. I swim in the natural flow of thoughts. In this state, I can’t write the words fast enough before they escape me. But sometimes, the flow stops, and I am at the bottom of an arid and parched lake bed. At times like these, I can’t write a thing.”

May 23, 2025

As we know, creativity is much more than artistic expression. The word "create" originated with the Latin verb "creo," which has roots in the ancient Sanskrit word "Kriti,” which means "to produce," "generate," or "make." So, creativity is a phenomenon in all areas of existence. Creativity is the capacity to originate ideas, work, or solutions through atypical thinking and doing processes. These generate new thoughts and concepts that are ultimately expressed. The ways they are expressed and applied are infinite. Now we reflect on the question: “What is the source of creativity?”