How Do Messages From the Spirit Come Creative Writing Practice

I slept deep last night. One of those soul-satisfying sleeps where I know my cells are being replenished. This morning while I was drifting between sleep and waking I had an image on my mind. It was the leftover fragment from a dream I couldn’t quite catch but it became words that lingered when I opened my eyes-
“I am catching fireflies on my plate.”
Huh? What is that all about? I haven’t a clue what that phrase means but I like it -and I’ve been mulling it over all day. I’ve visited with friends, attended a community potluck at the beach, watched the sunset over the ocean, shopped for groceries, fed my cat and still this one phrase keeps replaying in my mind.
I suppose I could have put the whole idea of “catching fireflies on my plate” right out of my mind but I didn’t want to. I felt energized and enthused when I thought about it. In fact I felt delighted and touched with the mystery of it all.
Sometimes that is how messages from Spirit come. Strange phrases, dream fragments, feelings that light us up inside and signal something unusual, otherworldly, profound has arrived. The question is whether we are listening and once receiving these messages – will we cancel them out because they make no sense to our ordinary minds?
Our creative worlds often appear mysterious and strange. Artists know their best projects are often born when they stumble down paths not taken before. Many outlines of my workshops were first jotted down on scraps of paper while I was traveling in a car. Mystics know that creation happens beyond the left-brain – when we are “out of our minds.”
I love being connected to the mystic, creative, mysterious realms of Spirit. My life is richer and more exotic for it. When I’m not – well, let’s just say – I get restless, uncomfortable and my life feels flat instead of bold and vibrant.
So I will continue to catch fireflies on my plate – even if I do not – right in this minute – understand what that means. And I will continue to notice when I feel “lit up inside”. – mmm – isn’t that what happens to fireflies?
I ask questions – about my work, about my love life, about my financial flow and about the best way to care for my physical body. I know when I ask the answers come. And I also know the most expanded answers to my questions happen when I am in my creative zone.
And so I do creative practices. I take on creative projects that stretch me. I write. I dance. I do things differently. I change things up – in ways that light me up. (mmm- I’m beginning to detect a theme) I make new choices. I create.
Living a creative life connects us to Spirit’s design for our lives. Some might call the creators life crazy but I wouldn’t want to live any other way.