Allowing the Storm in Your Life to Bring Out Your Creativity

At every turn we are offered a problem to overcome. We have to constantly stay on our toes to keep failure at bay. Even businesses have to revamp their way of doing business to stay ahead in changing trends. Change is inevitable, and it often brings difficult situations into our lives. To overcome those troubled situations a person has to learn how to think creatively.

Albert Einstein is quoted in saying "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Very seldom is this proven wrong. Instead of allowing a problem to overcome you, disillusion you, break you; it is an opportunity to help you go places you have never been before. Problems present themselves, yes, but it is to our gain to present our problems with solutions. Of course some bad situations seem impossible to overcome, but most aren't. The majority of the problems in our lives are only there for a season, and if we take a step back and look at the bigger picture, we can focus on the main cause of the problem so we can fix it. Most times we are so overcome with the symptoms of the problem that we overlook the true source.

If you have found yourself in a nasty situation and don't know how to handle it, do some research. I assure that someone somewhere before you has had a similar difficulty, if not the exact same problem. Find their story. Read it. Glean from it the wisdom of their actions and apply that to your life. It will take determination, strength, and even courage in most cases. Get angry. Set your mind. Take initiative.

Hardship is a way of life, but so is joy. You may not live in the mansion on the top of the mountain. You may not drive a fancy car. You may not even have a car or a house. Oftentimes we find ourselves in places in life that call for us to be as creative and inventive as we can to make our lives and the lives of those intertwined with ours as joyful and comfortable and peaceful as we possibly can. God has called us to look at this situation... and that situation... and find a way to turn the junk of life into art. It is a test of faith, a trial of humility, and fight of intellect. I truly believe, to the core of my being, that every person is a paintbrush, and every life is a canvas. We are handed trials and hurts, joys and jubilation, and these are our paints. I believe that every man is an artist, and what our end masterpiece looks like is not based simply on the "paints" or "situations" we are handed in life, but how we use them to paint the picture of our lives. That, I believe, is how I, and how you, can find ourselves in the midst of the storm.