John O'Donoghue is our instigator to thought on this third week of our Awaken Creative journey.
Join me,
Let's see what he has to say,
And let's see where he takes us with his mantra of methodology.
Be our best Awaken Creative self today.
This is the time to be slow.
Lie low to the wall until the bitter weather passes.
Try as best you can not to let that wire brush of doubt scrape from your heart,
All sense of yourself,
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good,
And you will find your feet again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind and blushed with beginning.
John O'Donoghue There's hope in this verse.
As we stand at base camp in this third week of our one universal year,
Where are you Awaken Creative?
Has the wire brush of doubt scratched all hope from your heart?
Or can you see the fresh pastures of promise awaiting?
Or is it both?
In the fallow days,
The long nights,
The bitter cold,
It can be easy to lose heart,
To lose footing,
To not realize that warm day will come again.
But the blush of spring truly is on the horizon,
And these fallow times are necessary,
Not just for the seeds in the ground,
But for your own warm heart as well.
An artist's rhythm is to ebb and flow.
We have an instinct,
A divine nudge that takes us on a course,
Through valleys and rivers and mountains,
To expressions we're not always sure exist until,
Behold,
They're before us.
Trust in it.
The expressions,
The rhythms,
Trust in it.
We are in fallow time,
But this is necessary.
It's fermenting,
It's fomenting,
It's doing the work before the work.
It's listening,
So that the response is all real.
Awaken creative today,
Go sit with it.
