Elizabeth Gilbert
What if your greatest success is behind you?   How do you keep going forward and be successful?  I love this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert.    She talks how those in Ancient Greece and Rome considered creativity was outside of oneself.
Like Darby the House Elf.   Are we a Genius or do we channel it?   Okay so we do not have Darby the House Elf per say, but we do have Guides that help us with our gift.

The pressure of putting it all on human Spirit can be overwhelming.   If what you did was a great success the artist could not take all the accolades.  It wasn’t theirs.  So if it wasn’t a success and just awful — well it wasn’t the artists fault either.

Elizabeth Gilbert is Brilliant

She said it best — if I am to do this great thing, she looked up and said “Help me — I have done my part I have shown up”.

Too often I forget to look up and ask for the help.   I bet the same could be said for others.   This gift is not me.   None of this is me.   I just have to be willing to show up and do my part.   Sometimes it is giving the gift of healing, sometimes it is giving a message from a loved one.   Other times it is being there for someone who needs encouragement.   Perhaps it is the time I become the teacher.

Creativity and Spirituality

This ancient wisdom makes more sense to me.  As she discusses the Renaissance changed things and for the last 500 years we have focused on the Genius being part of the person and not something outside of oneself.
The creative process does not behave rationally and can be overwhelming.  This is not different that dealing with Spirit.  Spirit and Genius go hand in hand when haring our gift with others.   We need to show up and be here to do our part to allow God to show through you.
What if you believe that your extraordinary gift is on loan to you and that it is to be passed along to someone else?  Just show up and be part of this process.   Stop for a moment, let this process flow through you.  Accept that we are one with this gift and that is it not inherently our but that for a moment or two we are able to let God shine through us.

 

 

Rev. Colleen Irwin
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Reverend Colleen Irwin is a Spiritual being having a human experience as a Blogger, Wife, Mother, Mentor, Healer and Public Speaker living in Rochester New York. Colleen, a Natural Born Medium, teaches, lectures and serves Spirit when called upon. She remembers speaking with Spirit as a child and learning how to share this knowledge with others has been an adventure that she captured in her book “Discovering Your Stream”. Colleen has been mentored by Reverend Jack Rudy, and ordained as a Priest in the Order of Melchizedek by the Reverend Dan Chesboro through the Sanctuary of the Beloved. When she is not doing her Spiritual work she is a volunteer docent sharing Susan B. Anthony's history to visitors of the Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester. Her trust in Spirit gave her a new title – PREVIVOR. She now uses her platform to educate others about the BRCA genetic mutation and how one can take control of their health and well-being.
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