Creativity requires vulnerability.

Creativity requires vulnerability. It also requires courage and honesty… the ability to expose hard, truths, peep back layers that others miss or refused to acknowledge.

Every time you create, there is risk of misunderstanding, lack of appreciation, or rejection. This is why so many give up on trying to write a book, make a movie or embark on any creative endeavor.

There is no way around this and no road to great success that avoids vulnerability.

It occurred to me today – God was vulnerable in His creation too!

God was fine without us, without the animals, water, land and universe. He didn’t create out of need. He created because he desires something that required risk- He wanted community with men and women made in His Image. His creativity required vulnerability too.

We must have the courage to be vulnerable, to risk sharing our creative truth.

For, in the words of Brené Brown, 

“Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

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