Creativity is vital to the act of creation.
When creativity is in concert with inspiration, it works wonder.
Yet, sometimes we can get stuck or feel stuck and uninspired to create from various reasons due largely to the life situations/circumstances.... illness, financial trouble, accidents, family situations...etc.
On the other hand, the great ideas and uplifting inspiration may seem to subside and dry up because the result is not apparent. In other words, sometimes the great projects requiring the help from the various sectors are not being met and fulfilled to continue and complete the projects.
...or the business is not recognized and not taking off as intended (even after the 3 years of the initial trial period). ..or the wonderful creations are not honored nor recognized... and bought...
When such outcome/situation continues, one may begin to feel hopeless and not wanting to continue/carry on.
I have been through that myself.
One day, during the middle 90s, I was watching a program on PBS where Les Brown, an inspirational speaker, was featured. Out of many wonderful message he had given that evening, one spoke to me deeply. It had to do with the growing of the Chinese bamboo tree. He said that it takes 5 years for the Chinese bamboo tree to grow, and yet, it does not break the ground and sprout for the first 5 years. After that, the tree can grow 90 feet tall in 40 so days! He was reminding us that for the first 5 years, we cannot see the result! Had we stop watering and nurturing the ground where the seeds are growing just because we cannot see the sprout/result, the tree would have died!
It is also like the making of a bread. If we keep opening the oven or wherever the bowl is kept, the bread cannot rise.
...or like the pregnancy. It requires time and patience.
It requires trust in your own inner voice.
We can learn from Cain and Abel story.
Cain offered to Elohim what he has created by tilling the soil just as his father, Adam, was told, following the family tradition.
Abel just offered the lamb after tending the lambs, as a shepherd. He used the creative idea instead of hard creative labor of gardening.
As we all know that the offering of Abel was accepted but not of Cain's.
Perhaps Elohim liked the offering of Abel, for it was not altered nor interfered with the act of creation via human elements. One can say that while Cain exercised the microcosmic creative expression of human ego (but not being able to creatively break away from the inherited family tradition), Abel respected the creation and the creature of Elohim as is without using his ego.
As an artist and/or musician, performer, one can experience Abel and Cain...the acceptance and the rejection of the artistic offerings.We can also, in turn, accept or reject the outcome.
Again, it may take years until the people would begin to accept certain art works. As long as we give them the impression that the creation we are offering are not what they want nor what they need, we cannot blame them for not accepting and recognizing. As long as we push our ego outwardly to be in someone's face, we can expect the rejection.
The answer may be in the harmony between Cain and Abel.. the harmony between the "expression of creative self" and the "path of soul."
Once I was told by a Vedic astrology guru that the expression of self is different from the path of soul.
He also told me that most of the time doing art is just doing your job. He pointed to himself by saying that however good he may be, doing astrology alone is not going to make gods happy, for he is just doing his job just as anybody else.
But...
He has added that if one can show the path/way to divine (which is the natural yearning of souls), then the heaven would be very happy.
I fully agree.
All the creative people have been given the gift of power to create.
We must use such power in service to the divine... and to pay forward...
