Morning Meditation for Friday

 

The final prayer practice and posture is one that is close to my heart ~ creativity.

 

I hear you saying, “But I am not an artist!”  I would like to remind you, you are!  You are created in God’s image, the imaginer and creative director of life.  Art is not only confined or contained by music or drawing or painting or poetry.  Art is living.  You practice the art of relationships.  You practice the art of breathing, sitting in silence, Sabbath, and simplicity.  You practice the art of inhabiting this planet with all your beautiful uniqueness.

 

You are an artist.  You may color, not with crayons, but with words.  You may create, not poems, but with safe places where people can be.  You may write, not novels, but with letters asking our leaders to make the world more just.  You may envision, not Broadway plays, rather with holy play that brings light and love and laughter into this world.

 

So today, celebrate the artist that is you.  Whatever it is that stirs your souls and causes God-goosebumps to form on your arms.  This could be listening to music and singing along at the top of your lungs.  This could be walking outside and listening to the trees.  This could be tending a relationship with a younger person who needs to know more than the brokenness that is too often woven into life.  There are countless ways you practice/embody the art of living.

 

Today is a great day to practice the prayer posture of art.  As you do so, may you release relentless love out into the world.  We will all be better for that if you do.  Amen.