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"For the Creative Soul > Be Creative and Original"
Bible Study: John 16:33
Other Suggested Reading: "The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron
From our friend Dee Emeigh Brown:
After reading your email this morning, along with devotions from different places, including Oswald Chambers and John 15, I came across the following note in the NIV Women's Study Bible, from
Sheila Walsh (the singer? I think I remember her!):

"It would be so much easier if we were given a road map. It would make so much of the journey more bearable if we could see that the path that is painful for a time is leading somewhere and it will get better. We don't have that. No believer who has gone before us has had that. There is no map. Christ is the way. Sometimes we feel so torn in two. Our human flesh cries out for some comfort and direction, for some control, and yet we are called to live above that... Surely it is on the path with Christ that we will find
rest. And when we are there, we will no longer wonder about God's will for our lives - we are living it."

And from "God Calling" (5-8) "Rest. I am at work. Listen to my voice. Be at Rest. Do the things you hear Me say...com back again to rest. All work that results from resting with God is miracle work..."

Finally, Oswald Chambers " 'Abide in Me' in every matter of life... It does not matter what my circumstances are; I can be as sure of ABIDING in Jesus in them as in a prayer meeting. Be at home with
God wherever you are placed. Abide in Him now."

"For the Creative Soul > In Tough Times"
Bible Study: John 16:33
Other Suggested Reading: "Total Money Makeover", Dave Ramsey

"For the Creative Soul > Learning New Tricks"
Bible Study: Proverbs 1:5
Other Suggested Reading: "Future of Music", Dave Kusek, Berklee Music Blogs, USA Today’s Technology section
Quotables: “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. - Eric Hoffer

"For the Creative Soul > Hitting the Wall"
Bible Study: 1 Corinthians 9:24
Other Suggested Reading: No reading, GO PRACTICE! If you have hit a wall, practice, learn a totally new piece of music, make some art in a different direction. Get your nose out of books and go do something different!

"For the Creative Soul > The Fame Drug"
Bible Study: 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 John 2:16, 17
Other Suggested Reading: "The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron
Quotables: "Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true." -- Pablo Picasso

"For the Creative Soul > Be a Student of the Game"
Bible Study: The Whole Thing
Other Suggested Reading: CCM, Billboard, Electronic Musician, American Songwriter, Performing Songwriter, Keyboard, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Recording, Christian Musician.

Buy, read, and reread these Books: "Good to Great", Jim Collins, "The Heart of the Artist", Rory Nolan, "The Future of Music", Dave Kusek, "The Dream Giver", Bruce Wilkinson.

Check out these blogs every week!: Berklee Music Blogs, For the Creative Soul, Called2Music

"For the Creative $oul > Making a Living"
Bible Study: Ephesians 2:10, 2 Timothy 2:15, Luke 10:7
Other Suggested Reading: "No More Mondays", Dan Miller, "48 Days to the Job You Love", Dan Miller

"For the Creative Soul > New Beginnings"
Bible Study: Genesis 1:1, Romans 12:11-13, Ecclesiastes 7:8
Other Suggested Reading: "The Heart of the Artist", Rory Nolan