Intentional Creativity is living on purpose.

It is going about your daily existence mindful

of how you lay the foundation of love in all your actions.

Just as you choose your clothes with care,

so can you pray into the soup you stir as it simmers,

or lay your soul bare on the canvas

in quinacridone magenta.

Living with intention may look like folding the laundry

of each loved one while whispering protection

and laughter into their garments,

dressing them in your love.

It is choosing your brushes, paints, and tools with care.

Blessing the work before it begins

and again as you pack it to travel to a new home.

It is making each moment matter.

In this way an artist builds a life, a body of work,

that is so much bigger than clay and canvas and wood.

It is a life of passion, sacred and meaningful.