St. Francis of Assisi once said, “Create within yourself a place where God might dwell.” I will likely always need to find time to write, but maybe Francis’ words direct us toward the ultimate form of creativity: soul-making.
Maybe sometimes it feels like we’re not doing what we’re made to do. Maybe we feel like we don’t have the time. Maybe we’re overwhelmed. But God’s growth in us is mysterious. And God’s expansion within our own souls sometimes requires some excavating, some good old-fashioned manual labor. That way, we can dig a well for the living waters to flow.
—from St. Anthony Messenger‘s “Creativity and Soul-Making“
by Stephen Copeland
