What is the Key to Unlocking Your Creative Potential?

The Creative Door: Asking, Searching, Knocking

Let me start with a few questions:

What door are you knocking on? What are you searching for and who are you asking?

“The vast creative mood of existence is creative and not chaotic…Man (woman) co-operates with the Spirit of God by making him or herself open and available to it”

Howard Thurman Disciplines of the Spirit  p. 22

Matthew 7:7 Jesus said:

⁷ “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. NRSV

The Spirit of God is the key to unlocking your creative potential. To be in touch with God’s Spirit you must open yourself up to it. You do this by asking, searching, seeking and knocking?

I hear ya, how do I do that? You do that by creating that which you were created to create and be willing to follow the whims of your creative energies.

When a project idea comes into your head don’t reject it, don’t judge, don’t ask if others will understand it or you, just pursue it.

Start making that work that makes you.

Get in your studio and start creating. To create is an act of asking, seeking and knocking. See, the Spirit led you to this creative moment and the Spirit will guide you in the creative process if you open yourself up to the spirit.

To unlock your creative door requires a work ethic. Artist who produce the best work, actually put the work in. They find inspiration in doing the work. They find inspiration in creating bodies of work that open doors their creative possibilities. They work hard and consistently, they are always in the studio, always making work, putting the hours in!

The spirit will lead you to the door but you have to knock, seek and ask and the  Spirit will answer you in the work you do in creating. What door are you knocking on? 

Blessings,

Ralph Basui Watkins