Saturday, June 27, 2009

What To Do At Low Tide

I'm at a low ebb right now, after a long period of high creativity. It happens, I think, to everyone. I'm sure you've experienced it, and if you're like me, it's a very uncomfortable place to be. Maybe you've felt drained, empty, or even burnt out. Sometimes it feels like depression. Whatever the causes and accompanying sensations and thoughts, the outcome is the same: low creative output.

Here, I simply enjoy the long walks on the beach, so to speak, listen for the distant voice of inspiration, pick up a few shells, rest, and know that, inevitably, the power to create will return like the tide of the ocean. And just about as suddenly as it went out.

Since I draw my life and inspiration from one Source, Jesus Christ, I take the opportunity to get extra rest in Him, let Him do whatever work He needs to do in me, and do the ordinary daily things in life that have to be done. I enjoy my family and close friends, I get some healthy creative input, I spend extra time in the Word and in prayer, and I wait for His life to well up in me in a greater way. And I resist the temptation to fall into sadness and disappointment, or shame and condemnation, because I'm unable to do everything I think I need to do.

So, I just want you to know I haven't quit on my blogs or anything, I'm just in that low tide place, enjoying the quietness and refreshment of a spiritual getaway.

2 comments:

Unikversiti said...

Peace and hi karen. You are so right about low tide time. Actually it happens to all person as long as we are called human hehe

A good idea came seasonly usually. or what they call in english eh :D I am usually get into this kind of situation too, and when this time come, i must take a break and doing something else first, until later the idea will come back hehe

like me, before i'm doing photography, i did many 3d works, until i get into photography, i left my works with 3d studio max and terragen and bla bla. Until low tide came to me in photography recently.

so i'm now back to work with 3d, especially when i found a great software to do 3d landscape , it's terragen also, but this is version 2. you can check out at their website at http://www.planetside.co.uk

Maybe u did used them too, i just want to inform if you still not use it, because it's not that hard to use that software. we can generate any kind of landscape we want, you ca cheak at their website for samples

I hope you ok with low tide time hehe, and i hope much more greater ideas will come to you soon. have a nice break first, take care my dear friend, all the best :)

And again sorry for quite bad english :D

Nicky Linzey said...

I know exactly how you feel as I've been uninspired recently myself. I think that creative people sometimes need a period of rest in which to re-charge their energies. Your creativity will come back as suddenly as it went.