Humility: A Portal for Creative Expression
Continued from Blog Humility: Humble Pie or Tested Torte 4
A “get out of jail” card is what we receive when we forsake the notion we are the centre of the universe. With self-absorption set aside we become aware of a world beyond ourselves. In assuming humility’s mantel of self-forgetfulness we see a gateway that leads to creative expression.
Well prepared speakers who submerge themselves in a presentation forget the potential for failure. It quickly becomes clear a presenter who lives, breaths and exists in the delivery. The audience knows it, feels it, sees it, and responds to this sublime moment of creative expression. They are swept along and swirled into the delivered content.
This is no different from any artistic expressions by painters, dancers, musicians, writers, singers and other artists but not limited to people with talent. Children lost in play are no less expressive than master sculptors. With all focus and energy in the sandbox they are un-self-consciously in union with the creations they fashion.
Humility Our Coveralls
Oddly, a problem with my blog website is reminiscent of this relinquishment of self-focus. When a post is first clicked on some of the blog pictures first display at full size, quickly though, they telescope down evolving into a tiny pin-prick that ultimately disappears from the page. I don’t know why this happens and I have been unable to find a remedy. Although it means to enhance the post it is as if when the picture leaves the page the word content assumes its fullest form. Like when I write the post I seem to disappear; everything else ceases to exist except the act of its creation.
I think Madeleine l’Engle says it best in A Circle of Quiet*: The work itself knocks me out of the way.
When humility becomes our coveralls and we no longer place ourselves at the centre of the universe our world is put to right order – properly aligned with the stars and planets. We are never so fully whole and complete than when self-disappears and union with creation arises.
*A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine l’Engle page 13, 1983 Seventh Printing, The Seabury Press, 815 Second Ave, NY, N.Y. 1007 https://www.amazon.ca/Circle-Quiet-Madeleine-LEngle/dp/0062545035
Think about when self-forgetfulness gives rise to creative expression in your life?
The next blog post will start a new discussion theme called: God’s Design.