Genesis Foyer

"Desire is at the heart of creativity. When we engage creatively, we depart from the fixed world of daily routine and grounded facts. We enter into a kind of "genesis foyer," where something that not yet is might begin to edge its way from silence into word, from the invisible into form. This is the excitement that fuels the writing life: the desire for what might emerge when the imagination begins to trawl the crowded seas of the white page. There is some pure desire in us to know what is original, to take leave of all the expected scripted perceptions that manipulate our experience. We long for an experience that is unfiltered, where the unknown could reach toward us without being filtered by us. For this reason the artistic life is vulnerable; it is often a chaotic and overwhelming place to attend. Yet when something true begins to emerge, it becomes the golden moment that redeems months of splintered time." ~ John O'Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us.

Read that a time or two and let it sink in deeply.

To create means to be reckless. Reckless has a bad connotation. I dated a guy in high school who was completely reckless and my parents hated every moment I was with him. But creative recklessness, to throw fear out the window and create that painting that won't leave your mind or compose the poem that lingers silently ~ that is a scary recklessness. As John says above, the artistic life is vulnerable. Do you sense a "genesis foyer" inside of you - a space with many doors leading to unexplored or abandoned rooms? Are you feeling a creative recklessness emerging from within? Go with it - you don't want to miss a golden moment that could redeem months of splintered time...

Grace & peace on the creative journey ~ deAnn