"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings
of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities,
we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist
before." - Dieter F.
Uchtdorf
What is it that drives us to create?
The clear answer is because we
are children of God, the greatest of creators, and thus we have that divine
desire inside of us to “create something that did not exist before.”
So this next week for General
Conference I am hoping to inspire you to get creative.
Paint! Write a poem! Play the
piano! Anything to satisfy that need that all of us have to create.
I am hoping to gently prod you
into finding the joy in creating.
I received this Email from Ryan
Kelly, a teacher at BYU who has written a new method of learning to play the
piano. Not having taken lessons since I was 8 years old, I thought I’d give it
a try, although not very hard yet. I really needed this little encouragement to
try to create. But what? But what? But what? I’m temporarily quilted out and
still have three half done tops. I yearn to paint but don’t do as well as my
friend who is an artist, so I feel intimidated. One of my nesting urges led to
organizing six file cabinet drawers. Is that creating? It impressed my husband
and I guess I was creating space and order!
When we feel the need, the urge
to create what do we need to do to get that little push? It’s almost like baby
hunger but that phase has passed long ago.
I have been blessed with an
excess and a charge to share. If I learn how to do one thing, one art form, it
leads me into wanting to try another.
Now I
have drawers full of “I want to“ projects. I need to learn enduring to the end
as well as urge to create. But I will say I’m never bored! I’ve been thinking
that it is time to start writing poetry again. I think I’ll choose words from
each talk of general conference and see what poems I can come up with from that
inspiration. Humm, sounds like a challenge. General conference starts Saturday
and Sunday this week. Check it out. I
challenge you to a poem.I encourage you to create something this week. Let me
know what you do!
