Live Creatively (especially now)…
“To live creatively is to live from the soul, to shape our circumstances out of our deepest desires instead of conforming our dreams to the circumstances in which we find ourselves.” —Jan Phillips
There is no getting around the awareness that we are living in chaotic times. All we can hope to control is our response to what is presented to us each day.
“Getting creative” takes on a new meaning and even a new sense of urgency in helping us navigate challenges and come out thriving on the other side.
Creativity is a natural quality of life itself. It is not limited to artistic expression. Living from your creative core means you respond to every moment from a place of possibility and openness. Our awareness is designed to meet each moment with freshness, receptivity, and creativity.” –Deepak Chopra
How can you tap into or harness the power of “your creative core” to meet these days open to possibilities rather than shut down in fear?
Walking, listening to music, engaging with any form of creative expression, and meditating are ways I shift into possibility thinking and living. What’s your way? Even if you don’t think you are creative, can you allow yourself to be inspired by art, poetry, music, meditative pauses for silence and more? This isn’t a nice-to-do thing. It’s a staying-alive-to-possibilities thing. A necessary thing.
May the great Creator guide you to the possibilities your creative core naturally sees. And may this experience inspire you to live and thrive from this space.
Something Beautiful
“…we are all called to be artists in our own way. We were all artists as children. We need to study the chaos around us in order to turn it into something beautiful. Something sustainable. Something that remains.”
—Matthew Fox
There is More
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
—Maya Angelou
We Will Remember
Nancy “Missy” Tobia
March 11, 1945 – April 21st, 2025
Missy Tobia, a long-time friend of Eremos, past Board Secretary, and facilitator of wonderful programs about St. Teresa of Avila, the Ignatian Method of Prayer, and more, passed away this last week. Please hold her husband, Ed Tobia, and her children and grandchildren in your prayers.
Imagine It
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What can you begin to imagine into existence this week?
Discernment
The trouble with the mind
is that it sees like a bird
but walks like a man.
And things at the surface
move fast, needing to be
gathered. While things
at center move slow,
needing to be
perceived.
What I mean is
if you want to see the
many birds, you can
gather them in a cage
and wonder why
they won’t fly.
Or you can go to
the wetlands, birding
in silence before
the sun comes up.
It’s the same
with what we love
or what we think.
We can frame them
in pretty cages or follow
them into God’s meadow
till they stun us with the
spread of their magnificent
wings.
—Mark Nepo
