“Love is the continuous birth of creativity within and between us.”
–John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
On the near side of the bridge, where you are looking across and seeing your circle or community across the gap of where the bridge needs to be, there with you, on your side of the bridge, is your creation.
How is it doing? How is your book coming? How is your business thriving? Are the paintings being painted? Are you teaching the classes, connecting with the clients, creating from the heart?
Does your creation have your full commitment behind it?
Yes, it’s two more Cs for the near side of the bridge. Are you creating your creation, your creative project? And are you fully committed to creating it and imbuing it fully with your gifts?
Fully committing to your creation means nurturing it with love, with passion, and with dogged determination sometimes.
I just watched The Road
Somehow the sense of commitment to his child, even in the midst of a flat, colorless and sometimes horrific world, is the level of commitment that we too are called to bring to our creations.
We create out of love, because creation is the nature of love. We commit to create, then we love and nurture our creation into manifestation. The act of creation strengthens us, as creators. It strengthens our community. It draws forth the creation itself, as it sings into the world something new.
Have you measured your commitment to your creation today?
Lynn, Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yes, commitment can be tricky. It can be the hidden-in-plain-sight concept that gets overlooked. I appreciate your stopping by.
~B
This post brought on DUH! moment for me. I had never really thought about commitment associated with creativity.
However, when writing a novel, commitment is absolutely necessary to push through the middle after the enthusiasm of the beginning is gone. It’s obvious, when I think about it.
Why, oh why does my hair lift when I read this post? Even on the second, then the third, reading? This needs serious thinking and feeling and sitting still with.
Thank you so much. It might be my knitting project that stalled out of lack of yarn, but I don’t think so. I think it’s writing-related. Okay, I’m off to write and see what comes out.
Dear Karen, Thank you! There is little more thrilling to someone who writes than to get feedback that their writing raises lifts the hair or raises goosebumps. I hope your writing project went well. Wow! I so appreciate your comments. Blog on! Write on!
~B
Bobbye ~
I believe “commitment” can be just as scary a word as “accountability”. They both seem to connote “serious hard work.” Therefore, I know that some bridges will never be built.
Enthusiasm, creativity, and passion may abound! But without commitment, the gap between one’s creation and one’s community will not congeal.
I wonder if we could find a way to help people view commitment more as something to be embraced? To rejoice and revel in?
Melanie, Some freakin glitch. I know I wrote a reply hours ago, but somehow it didn’t “take.” I agree. “Commitment” sounds difficult. Sounds like you’re in it for the long haul. I love your thought — it’s worth pondering — of uncovering the reframe that will allow us to embrace commitment joyously. I wonder if we could power the commitment with the fires of passion and enthusiasm to somehow make it less foreign? Always great food for thought.
~B