The creative talent available to the individual is amazing to the point of miraculous. 

In my younger years I often found myself looking at the art, the works of other people, with some sense of inadequacy inspired awe.  I had some deep rooted need to compare myself against friends, family or the world at large in order to maintain my fragile self image.

Since those times, thankfully long past, in my present world of counseling, one of the most frequent visitors has been inadequacy. A visitor who, in my recollection, was always based upon comparison, and who regularly held fictitious standards.

I must admit the temptation is great; we spend our days moving through a world out there a world of objects and obstacles that must be incorporated or avoided.  It seems often that our days are about dodging, first this way then that.  We dodge words, we dodge people, we dodge confrontations, all to maintain our fragile shields often weakened through inadequacy. 

In all of it we dodge ourselves, we fall out of integrity with those important moments that only exist right now.  We manage to completely miss our own creative expression.
And yes; we all do have a creative spark.  Every one of us is capable of creating masterpieces of one form or another. 

I once knew a man who painted with his toes.  He didn’t have hands; just his mouth and toes.  He was creative.  We all are.

I have known many who discovered their gifts later in life.  I have met others who discovered them with children underfoot .  Still others have brought their talents out through their work.  And some awaken to their creativity in the middle of the night.

We all have talents but talents don’t generally just fall into our lives.  They are created by determination and passion.  To develop talents we must dream a greater dream, stretch ourselves and redefine who we are.  Generally we must make a decision to just get out there and do it.

Usually that creative urge comes alive at just about the point a person can no longer push it down.  Her life has long since lost its zest.  The sparkle and joy she once felt has seemingly flittered away when her mind was caught in the vigor of dodging her fears. 

Often the only part of life that is left alive is his physical body.  The rest seems dead; shackled to a brain so imprisoned by its many fears, anxieties and moral limitations that true creativity has become and impossible dream.

But it is not.  In my spiritual journey I have learned one universal truth.  We are always bigger than our fears. 

We can change; it may be scary, but we can do it.  Being bigger than our fears doesn’t mean they will magically go away.  It just means that if a person moves through them they will not kill him.  It means he shall grow stronger, more alive and dynamic. And when he does he starts to discover something very important.