If you have a story to tell, tell it. If you have an image to draw, draw it. If you have a song to sing, sing it. A poem, a sculpture, a wall hanging, a garden . . . Whatever.

Maybe you’ll be able to share it with the world. Maybe not. But strike while the muse is hot. Use it, or it will disappear, and you’ll be the poorer, if not the world.

Creativity is a subjective process, not like a journey from Point A to Point B that you plot on a map. The fulfilment of the creative process requires discipline, to be sure, but it is never tamed or owned, only borrowed from the Creator.

“The components of the material world are fixed; those of the world of imagination increase by a continuous and irreversible process, without any destruction or rearrangement of what went before. This represents the nearest approach we experience to ‘creation out of nothing,’ . . . Thus, Berdyaev is able to say: ‘God created the world by imagination.’”
                                       —Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker