AN ARTIST’S PRAYER*
Dear Great Creator/God/Universe, etc.
I come to this space in your name,
That I may be of greater service to you & to my fellows.
I offer myself up to you as an instrument.
I open myself up to your creativity in my life.
I surrender to you my old ideas.
And I welcome your new and more expansive ones.
I trust that you will lead me.
I trust that it is safe to follow you.
I know you’ve created me and that creativity is your nature and also of my own.
I ask you to unfold my life according to your plan, and not my own self-worth.
Help me to believe that it is not too late and that I am not too small nor too flawed to be healed –
By you and through you – and made whole again.
Help me to love myself,
To nurture my unfolding,
To encourage my growth,
And to understand my fears.
Help me to know that I am not alone, nor broken,
But that I am loved & lovable.
Help me to create as an act of communication with you.
*Adopted from “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron