Tackling Creativity

I’ve been overwhelmed, as usual.  Productive, yes, but not always doing what I wanted to be doing.  Hiding, at times, from creating when I have the precious spare moment, choosing instead to waste it on … whatever.

Then, tonight, as I was searching for a recipe to make chocolate cake without eggs,  (because I had no eggs and because I wanted to feed my face, instead of using the hour when my babes are resting to create) I came across some Mormon Messages.  It reminded me of why I write.  Why I am using my spare time to do what I am doing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MormonMessages#p/c/A088CD4F66CDB66E/31/-aUb_kvO2YE

I loved three things that Cassandra said:

1. She painted about being in the moment, appreciating the now.
2. She brought her girls into her art studio and encouraged their creativity.
3. She realized that she had made up an ideal that she thought she had to be – but all she needed to do was be the woman that God made her to be.