The Divine Spark

I have been truly blessed in my life. It is only now that I see that. When I was four years old, my mother gave me the gift of music and dance – piano lessons on Saturdays and ballet twice a week. This evolved into gymnastics, swimming, tennis, basketball, volleyball, violin, clarinet, singing, modern dance, theatre, art, and several other forms of creativity.

Mom knew my creative potential. She saw a flawless being, a perfect child of God with divine intelligence, and blessed me with the avenues to utilize this gift, however it manifested. She would take my sister and me to plays at the Shubert Theatre, shopping at Bullock’s Wilshire, and to see national monuments. We lived in a very small town at the tip[ of the Sierra Mountains, so this was very exciting to me as a young girl. As part of my violin playing, I was invited to several violin camps up and down the West Coast, and my mother would make sure our family was vacationing, so that I didn’t feel like it was an obligation to be there. She kept my spirit whirling with possibilities, she helped me to believe anything was possible, and that my connection to God was infinite and yet an everyday occurrence. She made it fun.

I lived in possibility for many years, full of hope and full of an undying zest for life. Then I began to change. I started doubting my beliefs as I saw suffering in my own world and in our society. I could not accept that God would allow this level of pain to exist. I continued down a long road of my own seclusion, denial, and suffering for many years, searching through the darkness for my creativity and hope, which I thought had been lost. I truly believed it had been lost, that I could not retrieve what I had once known. The consequences of my actions became so severe as to almost take my life. And then, without reverence, I heard a voice, loud and crashing as I almost killed someone and myself driving drunk. This act of Providence was undeniable; the voice said, “This is your last chance!” My world was changed forever. The God that I thought I had lost was right there with me every step of the way. I proceeded to cease drinking and began to recover from this long and unending darkness.

In the past eight years I have discovered that my connection to God is a conscious decision on a daily basis and that if I allow the surface noise to fade, Spirit is there waiting, patiently, ready for me to listen and receive its blessings. If I get out of my own way long enough, I can hear and feel that divine spark, waiting to be energized, waiting to be plucked. I can now cocreate with divine intelligence at will; it is only a matter of opening myself to the possibility of divine intelligence manifesting through me and bringing light and love to this world, which I feel is my duty as a human being. God is my employer. This is my only job.

Published in Science of Mind Magazine in April 2002
All Together Section – on creativity and Spirit
Pg. 98

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wondering if this is the right pod for this discourse….

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Thanks for sharing Ki. 

Have you been to http://pods.zaadz.com/creativewriting Pod yet?  There is a poet's corner and some great sparks for creative writing…they are called assignments, but are so much more.

There are also some great topical sections you might like, like “Nurture your Inner Writer” and “Your Personal Journal” for discussing your personal writing journey.

Please stop by.  It was started by my great, long time zaadz friend Sandra and wonderful friends Alex, Burt and Gabriele.

~Mike

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the equation tween the spiritual and the arts n creativity is like the biggest question. i think this is a good place to ask the question, it could get lost in a sea of pods. persued maybe in blogs and a pod. theres an inner circle here that gives impetus to the question, maybe we dont all love each other yet…….but its a good place  :)
intelligence is divine, but maybe not when it gets reduced to some kind of a man made package, which happens. no art or music or painting compares with nature. just lookat a patch of grass. a zillion blades touching, intricate, sophisticated and timeless. can this intelligence be reduced to some framework or discipline of art.  or is it all a pleasure?
on the other hand creativity is such a high, it breaks my heart every time i cant put a finger on the equation. and at that moment maybe we can find the extras. will it still be so much fun?
big questions?
I hope you guys think this is a worthwhile issue.  appreciate a response.

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Well, as far as I’m concerned, this is the only reason for life, is so that this divine intelligence can express itself into the physical!

There is really nothing else. Intelligence just keeps expressing, it is never-ending and changeless, eternal, as it were.

Art is just an expression of the infinite, in all it’s glory!

It is taken from the infinite, to the finite.

Go listen to my song on: saralise.com

That might inspire!

S~

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Hi Ki,

“I can now cocreate with divine intelligence at will; it is only a matter of opening myself to the possibility of divine intelligence manifesting through me and bringing light and love to this world, which I feel is my duty as a human being. God is my employer. This is my only job.”

That was a beautiful and intelligent write!  Thank you for sharing your poetry of thought.

Remain inspired…

John D