{"id":918,"date":"2011-08-29T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=918"},"modified":"2011-08-29T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:52:13","slug":"created-just-now-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/08\/29\/created-just-now-week-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Created Just Now — Week One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now I am revealing new things to you
\nThings hidden and unknown to you
\nCreated just now, this very moment.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Looking for a bit of creative inspiration on Amazon the other day, I came across The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom<\/a><\/em> by Christine Valters Paintner<\/a> in between all the Zen and Tao of photography books. Not that there is anything wrong with those books, but I still feel like I have oceans of depth to plumb in my own Roman Catholic tradition before I go wandering around to the others and so I was excited to see something in that genre that was based on Western (specifically Benedictine) monasticism. <\/p>\n

Coincidentally (serendipitously?), it happened to be the book of the month at Patheos<\/a>. The Anchoress<\/a> even gave it a positive review! The more I read ABOUT the book, the more I wanted to give it a try. So I got it and set to work. Now that I’ve finished week one, I thought I would share a little bit about the journey so far.<\/p>\n

I am six months pregnant with my seventh child. That’s me in the photo. The text above, from Isaiah, was the suggested reading for the lectio divina<\/em><\/a> portion of the week. Being pregnant, it’s pretty easy to associate that reading with a child, new life. But it’s a bit more of a stretch to see what it has to say about creativity. <\/p>\n

After a week of meditating, it speaks to me of stopping and listening. I’m so often running around — putting out fires, surrounded by activity and noise and yes, sometimes chaos — that it becomes almost impossible to hear. This reading tells me that to make art that is deeper and more meaningful, I need to stop and listen for quieter voices that are coming from far below the surface.<\/p>\n

And for those joining from Kim’s Texture Tuesday party, here is the layers palette. I finally remembered to grab a screenshot! : )<\/p>\n

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