Live An Amplified Life To amplify means to: exaggerate deepen heighten intensify magnify strengthen boost develop raise stretch jazz up There are lots more synonyms I could trot out, but you get the picture. Most of the time, life is made up of ordinary moments, the everyday moments that don’t get broadcast to the […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 34 A Revolution in Your Heart I’ve had a pretty crappy sort of day. It’s a New Year and I’ve had a setback with my recovery. I spent the day in bed feeling very low, sore and very lazy. At church tonight the sermon was about making progress and making […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 33 Frame It! Build It! I’ve been on a road trip the last couple of days and, because I’m recovering from surgery, all I’m allowed to do is read. (Not that I’m complaining! Reading is my number one hobby.) Reading is my hobby, but it’s also homework. (Seriously!) I was privileged […]
100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32 Appointments For Adventure New Year is traditionally a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I imagine the New Year as a blank page, one to be filled with potential stories, ideas and characters which will form […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FIVE: It’s Time to Dream It’s New Year’s Eve again. It only seems like yesterday I was sitting here at my desk dreaming about 2015 and its possibilities and now we’re in the final hours. I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]
Recovering A Sense of Possibility at this time of year is important. We usually find ourselves getting on the New Year Resolution bandwagon without really believing that a new year will see any change. We may have hope, even faith, but believing with a profound sense of possibility may fade as January turns into February and […]
Recovering A Sense of Possibility LESSON TWO: Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can. Julia Cameron First we have to believe that we are allowed to catch the bus. Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, except abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. […]
Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility. For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Too often we look at the past year […]
